quaternion
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Students familiar with complex numbers could begin to contemplate quaternions.
From Slate • Oct. 14, 2016
We have quaternions to thank for Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft, for the eye-popping special effects in The Matrix Reloaded, and for Curiosity’s 2012 landing on Mars.
From Slate • Oct. 14, 2016
Eclipsed for much of the 20th century by such tools as vector analysis and matrix algebra, quaternions have more recently enjoyed a renaissance.
From Slate • Oct. 14, 2016
McCartney and Mann point out how quaternions have turned out to be convenient tools in robotics, computer graphics, and the gaming industry in particular, because they simplify calculations of rotations in three-dimensional space.
From Scientific American • Jul. 19, 2011
All knowledge is good; from the theory of quaternions to the way to cut a ham-frill.
From Septimus by Locke, William John
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