Visualizing the 4d numbers Quaternions
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Stereographic projection makes unit quaternions visible. Left multiplication rotates two perpendicular planes together, distinct from the conjugation used for three-dimensional orientation.
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everything you're looking at really has the same magnitudetwo separate 2D rotations, happening perpendicular to and in sync with each otherOne thing worth noticing here is that order of multiplication matters.knowing what our transformation does to them gives us the full information about what it does to all of space