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  • Quaternions are the closest we get to lovecraftian horror in real life.

    Four dimensional and mostly imaginary, they were carved into a stone bridge by a crazy mathematician in a fit of madness, Lord Kelvin called them “unmixed evil”, and the Mad Hatter from Alice may have been inspired by them.

    Also they have been a curiosity at best for a long time, despite the efforts of a secret Quaternion Society, but they suddenly blew up in usefulness in modern times as they happen to be an easy and fast way for computers to describe rotations in 3D space, so they’re everywhere.

    Yeah, lovecraftian as shit.