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Attn: Math Types. Quaternions. by williamashbless2004-10-22 14:14:59
  Note to self: Read web material on quaternions by bwkaz2004-10-22 14:36:31
    OK, never mind, I don't think I *can* help. by bwkaz 2004-10-22 15:29:25
Not after reading what I've read in the past hour. I don't really grok the way quaternions map to 4-D points (mostly because I can't visualize 4-D points), much less how multiplying them together results in a scaling and rotation.

I know it's true, because I can see how it derives from the definition of a quaternion and normal algebraic multiplication, but I can't "see" it. :-(
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      Uh, wondering where 4d points came into it. by williamashbless2004-10-22 15:35:22
        Well... I meant "point" as in by bwkaz2004-10-22 17:46:36

 

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