[SciPy-Dev] GSoC'18 participation?

[Mark Campanelli]

Anyone familiar with Geometric Algebra? Might be worth consideration during
preliminary discussions. For example, thinks looks potentially relevant:
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1610323

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:19 Eric Larson <larson.eric.d at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the feedback. You mentioned 3D visualization in which, as
>> far as I know, 4D homogeneous coordinates are commonly used. But we
>> shouldn't go in this direction and consider 3D vectors and rotations only,
>> right?
>>
>
> Yeah at least at first (for GSoC or first implementation) this makes sense
> to me. In viz I ran into needing quaternions specifically. In neuroscience
> I've needed that and also e.g. computing the angle between two rotation
> matrices (or quaternions), among other things.
>
> Great that you are interested in mentoring this project as well. I will
>> add the idea in a basic form to the wiki. Generally I think we should leave
>> some space for a student to investigate, instead of specifying absolutely
>> everything. Do you agree?
>>
>
> Yes that sounds reasonable to me.
>
> If anyone thinks this isn't within the scope of SciPy, speak now or
> forever hold your peace :)
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
>
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