[SciPy-Dev] GSoC'18 participation?

[Mark Campanelli]

Thanks Robert! GA seems to have advanced nicely since I last dabbled with
it. I would hope any “core” approach based on GA could remain accessible to
those with a more traditional background. I recall this bridge seemed very
worth crossing over.

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 14:12 Robert Cimrman <cimrman3 at ntc.zcu.cz> wrote:

> On 01/19/2018 08:58 PM, Mark Campanelli wrote:
> > 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
>
> FYI: a freely accessible resource on geometric algebra:
> http://www.jaapsuter.com/geometric-algebra/
>
> And ,of course, there is a Python package for that:
> https://clifford.readthedocs.io
>
> r.
>
> > 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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