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Visualizing Quaternions: Series in Interactive 3D Technology
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| Organization: | Indiana University |
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| Publisher: | Morgan Kaufman (San Fransisco, CA) |
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The Discovery of Quaternions | Rotations Take the Stage | Basic Notation | What Are Quaternions | Roadmap to Quaternion Visualization | Basic Rotations | Visualizing Algebraic Structure | Visualizing Quaternion Spheres | Visualizing Logarithms and Exponentials | Basic Interpolation Methods | Logarithms and Exponentials for Rotations | Seeing Elementary Quaternion Frames | Quaternions and the Belt Trick | More about the Rolling Ball: Order-Dependence is Good | More About Gimbal Lock; II Advanced Quaternion Applications and Topics | Alternative Ways to Write Down Quaternions | Efficiency and Complexity Issues | Advanced Sphere Visualization | Orientation Frames and Rotations | Quaternion Frame Methods | Quaternion Curves and Surfaces | Quaternion Curves | Quaternion Surfaces | Quaternion Volumes | Quaternion Maps of Streamlines and Flow Fields | Quaternion Interpolation | Controlling Quaternion Animation | Global Minimization: Advanced Interpolation | Quaternion Rotator Dynamics | Spherical Riemann Geometry | Quaternion Barycentric Coordinates | Quaternions and Representations of the Rotation Group | Quaternions and the Four Division Algebras | Clifford Algebras
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Introduced 160 years ago as an attempt to generalize complex numbers to higher dimensions, quaternions are now recognized as one of the most important concepts in modern computer graphics. They offer a powerful way to represent rotations and compared to rotation matrices they use less memory, compose faster, and are naturally suited for efficient interpolation of rotations. Despite this, many practitioners have avoided quaternions because of the mathematics used to understand them, hoping that some day a more intuitive description will be available.
The wait is over. Andrew Hanson's new book is a fresh perspective on quaternions. The first part of the book focuses on visualizing quaternions to provide the intuition necessary to use them, and includes many illustrative examples to motivate why they are important--a beautiful introduction to those wanting to explore quaternions unencumbered by their mathematical aspects. The second part covers the all-important advanced applications, including quaternion curves, surfaces, and volumes. Finally, for those wanting the full story of the mathematics behind quaternions, there is a gentle introduction to their four-dimensional nature and to Clifford Algebras, the all-encompassing framework for vectors and quaternions.
Features:
* Richly 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.
* 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.
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Quaternions, Clifford Algebras, Computer Graphics
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