UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR

Thursday, May 5, 12:30--1:20pm

Balmer 413


Quaternions and Applications to Computer Graphics

Matt Klassen

DigiPen Institute of Technology

Thanks to a Theorem of Hamilton, it is possible to represent rotations in R^3 elegantly and efficiently using unit quaternions. In recent years this representation has been exploited in the computer graphics industry. When rotation operators are replaced by quaternions, the problem of smooth interpolation becomes simpler. We will summarize the algebra involved, and also give a demo of some computer graphics applications worked out by DigiPen students.