▲ 67 ▼ rule (beehaw.org) submitted 2 years ago by Stoneblackdog@beehaw.org to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) And just like that, I'm back to junior high grumbling about the concept of imaginary numbers. Fuck you, y'all made up! 🤣 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anti_antidote@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago Lol I didn't quite get my math right, but it still involves imaginary numbers. Fun fact! Any 3D game you've played in the past probably quarter century doesn't just use 1 dimension of imaginary numbers, but 3 to represent 3D rotation! Quaternions are difficult to visualize since it's a 4-dimensional quantity but they're perfect for representing rotation in 3D space without suffering from gimbal lock like rotation matrices. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anti_antidote@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago Lol I didn't quite get my math right, but it still involves imaginary numbers. Fun fact! Any 3D game you've played in the past probably quarter century doesn't just use 1 dimension of imaginary numbers, but 3 to represent 3D rotation! Quaternions are difficult to visualize since it's a 4-dimensional quantity but they're perfect for representing rotation in 3D space without suffering from gimbal lock like rotation matrices. permalink fedilink source parent