This video covers the fundamentals of quaternions and shows how to implement a quaternion class in Python to animate and rotate a 3D model like Earth.
The Quaternion class implemented and example code for the features:
https://github.com/kurtbruns/quaternion
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:28 - Design choices
8:24 - What are quaternions
11:33 - Code demo
15:18 - Implementation
30:31 - Rotating Earth
35:19 - Animating Earth
41:29 - Outro
Resources:
https://splines.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rotation/slerp.html
https://dev.bostondynamics.com/docs/concepts/geometry_and_frames.html
https://youtu.be/d4EgbgTm0Bg
