Visualizing Quaternions (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Published: January 31, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780120884001
First sentence: Quaternions arose historically from Sir William Rowan Hamilton's attempts in the midnineteenth century to generalize complex numbers in some way that would be applicable to three-dimensional (3D) space.
Description: "Andrew Hanson's new book is a fresh perspective on quaternions. Features include: illustrated introduction for the developer, scientist, engineer, or student in computer graphics, visualization, or entertainment computing; covers both non-mathematical and mathematical approaches to quaternions; and a companion website with an assortment of quaternion utilities and sample code, data sets for the book's illustrations, and Mathematica notebooks with essential algebraic utilities."--Jacket.