C# on Libbs' Lab

Your Guide to Quaternions

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 12:00:00 -0700

Here as he walked by on the 16th of October 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton in a flash of genius discovered the fundamental formula for quaternion multiplication: i2 = j2 = k2 = ijk = -1 —Plaque on Broom Bridge, Dublin # Intro So you want to learn about quaternions? Well, you’ve come to the right place. I’ll try my best to simplify it for you. This is written assuming that you know the following:

Roll-A-Tetrahedron

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:00:00 -0700

A member of a Discord server I moderate was curious about how to roll a tetrahedron. And that intrigued me. It’s such a unique problem. They wanted something similar to Tarodev’s “Roll-A-Cube” video. Searching for a pre-existing solution to see if this had been done before turned up nothing. So I got to work. Engineering a solution to a unique problem involves trial and error, and I’ve purposefully included any non-working attempts so that you can follow along with the process.

Naming Conventions

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:00:00 -0700

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." — Martin Fowler # Listen Up We need to talk. No, I don’t mean that in the “you’re in trouble” sense, but more literally: we need to be able to communicate more clearly. When something is written in text, it can be hard to determine the *intent* behind the words or where they’re coming from.