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Re:Less Weird Quaternions Using Geometric Algebra by abainbridge on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:18AM (#14955273)
Hmmm.

"The area of the plane will depend on the length of the pencils". Surely the area of the plane is infinite? The area of the _parallelogram_ will depend on the length of the pencils.

And I can't see how "you can assign an orientation to the plane" other than by changing the directions of the pencils. Again this description sounds like it refers to the parallelogram, not the plane.

And I don't know what a rotor is.

But other than that, I'm doing great.

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Re:Less Weird Quaternions Using Geometric Algebra by defen on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:15PM (#14961475)
Yes, when I said plane I really meant the parallelogram. By rotor I literally just meant "a thing that spins" - you could draw a circle on the parallelogram with an embedded arrow describing the direction it is spinning - that arrow could either be going clockwise or counterclockwise.
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Re:Less Weird Quaternions Using Geometric Algebra by klodolph on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:02AM (#14957342)
The length of a line is infinite too. If you think of a vector as a line + magnitude, it's a bit more natural to think of a bivector as a plane + magnitude.
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