people seem to always talk about gimbal lock as a reason to use quaternions over euler angles, but it seems like they're also a more natural fit for physics (esp. torque) and relative rotation (i.e. a space ship turning around its own z axis).
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we could have settled on the more natural vector algebra that includes quaternions, but unfortunately they were dubbed "a positive evil of no inconsiderable magnitude" before it caught on 😔
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Yeah, I'm trying to learn about clifford/geometric algebra more. It seems really nice! Sadly we have a huge amount of stuff on linear algebra, but not much on clifford algebra. Apparently it's really handy for spacetime computations, and greatly simplifies many things in physics.
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I think if's fine for people to learn LA first, given the wider resources available, but I would love to see more stuff on GA. Perhaps with less of the fervor too - I think at times people see that as a tad off-putting.
Oooh, this looks interesting!
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On the topic of quaternion explainers: this is a really nice primer, using GA.
I particularly enjoy the diagram showing how each component of the bivector part contributes to the full rotation. 
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if you haven't already come across it, bivector.net/doc.html has some nice resources & links!
i definitely think LA is more than fine to learn first on its own. but it's hard for me to place where exactly GA would land in an ideal curriculum bc it's very broadly applicable!
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Oh cool! Will have a look at this. Do you know of any resources about using GA in the context of spherical navigation? Or would that be pretty natural to me after I'd grasped more than just the basics?
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