Summer of Math Exposition

Presented by 3Blue1Brown 3blue1brown

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Tags: animationquaternionsquaternion-rotation

What are the connection between quaternions and rotation? We will explore this topic, building from the basics, connecting concepts from the real, imaginary and quaternions. Through this approach, I aim to explain in a way that even a high schooler with basic calculus knowledge can understand, and learn something.


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The visuals definitely helped and strangely enough I never thought to use GitHub as a blog.

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There’s some really good stuff in here. I like how you make the comparison between the complex plane and the jk-plane (for lack of a better term) and how they both make a 90 degree rotation when multiplied by i. I also liked your explanation of i shrinking and growing for why the quaternion sandwich multiplication is necessary.

Some of the explanations were a bit jumbled, for instance: “One thing to note is that quaternion multiplication is associative, and this property is shared with quaternions.” I’m assuming you meant “complex multiplication is associative, and this property is shared with quaternions.”? And there were a few other examples like this. Not the end of the world but it caught me up a few times.