IME the trick to getting an intuitive understanding of quaternion rotations is just to treat them as "basically axis-angle". The vector part of the quaternion is the axis and the scalar part is "basically the angle". 1/2 - ThreadSky

pcwalton.bsky.social • 27 days ago

IME the trick to getting an intuitive understanding of quaternion rotations is just to treat them as "basically axis-angle". The vector part of the quaternion is the axis and the scalar part is "basically the angle". 1/2