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Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra

Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra

Bivector
8 HN recommenders · discussed 2020–2022
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About this video

A SIGGRAPH 2019 course on geometric algebra. Charles Gunn gives an intro, then Steven De Keninck gives a programmer-focused course with live examples in ganja.js.

Why it appears in the archive

HN commenters repeatedly point people to it as the most accessible, developer-friendly introduction to geometric algebra and its use in graphics and physics.

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crubier · 2020-02 · strong rec

Ok look just watch this mind blowing video: [VIDEO] After that, you can’t argue that geometric algebra is not THE right way to do geometry. Projective geometry (in any dimension) is a subset of geometric algebra. Please watch it.

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cs702 · 2020-04 · rec

The following video has a good, developer-friendly introduction to the subject that should answer your question. Take a look in particular at the code snippets that are sprinkled throughout the video and notice how much cleaner, shorter, simpler, less computationally costly, and "universal"/"exception-free" the code becomes: [VIDEO]

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aabajian · 2020-05 · rec

If you like this, then checkout the presentation on Geometric Algebra from 2019 SIGGRAPH: [VIDEO] You can then play around with objects in 3D, 4D, and beyond: [LINK]

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aabajian · 2020-05 · rec

Geometric algebra: [VIDEO] It makes a lot of hard physics problems (Maxwell's equations, relativity theory, quantum mechanics) much more understandable and (I'm told) unifies them in a common framework. I think it will help your average developer become comfortable with these areas of physics.

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adamnemecek · 2020-07 · rec

It's one equation in geometric algebra. [LINK] Also there is a new community for geometric algbera people [LINK] . Check out the demo [LINK] Watch the SIGGRAPH talk [VIDEO] Join the discord [LINK]

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ivan_ah · 2020-09 · rec

Here is a video [VIDEO] and the associated HN thread [LINK] that provide some more background on GA and its applications. I think you're generally right that GA is a rebranding of concepts we already knew about, however representing them in a uniform manner seems like a useful thing to do. The at t=4083 in the video they show some interesting examples of projections, rotations, and other geometric operations that can be done quite simply [VIDEO]

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adamnemecek · 2020-11 · rec

You should check out the bivector community [LINK] . Check out a demo [LINK] Join the discord [LINK] . Enki (the guy behind bivector) also gave a talk on GA at SIGGRAPH 2019 [VIDEO]

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adamnemecek · 2020-12 · rec

You should check out the bivector community dedicated to geometric algebra [LINK] . Check out a demo [LINK] Join the discord [LINK] . Enki (the guy behind bivector) also gave a talk on GA at SIGGRAPH 2019 [VIDEO]

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