Evan Jacover (dot com!) » Math http://evanjacover.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 03 May 2010 23:49:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The A(lgebra) Team http://evanjacover.com/archives/2008/the-algebra-team http://evanjacover.com/archives/2008/the-algebra-team#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 05:18:06 +0000 Evan http://evanjacover.com/?p=337 It’s been a long time since I’ve been taken on a mind-blowing journey through high-level mathematics, but last night I was taught all the wonders of quaternions, and it was fabulous. Quaternions are a somewhat archaic mathematical construct of 4-dimensional complex numbers. They’re not used for much anymore, but they come in quite handy when animating rotations in 3-D computer graphics.

I know a lot of people don’t like math, but when a complex mathematical tool serves a practical purpose so elegantly, It’s a beautiful thing. I love it when a plan comes together! Don’t you, Hannibal?

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