Quaternions in Python

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Fri Oct 5 22:20:07 EDT 2001


Paul Rubin wrote:

> I think there's a simple way to represent quaternions as 3x3 matrices.
> So you could probably just store them that way and use NumPy for the
> arithmetic.

... which rather defeats the purpose for using quaternions in the first
place.

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