[SciPy-Dev] GSoC'18 participation?

[Robert Cimrman]

On 01/19/2018 08:58 PM, Mark Campanelli wrote:
> Anyone familiar with Geometric Algebra? Might be worth consideration during
> preliminary discussions. For example, thinks looks potentially relevant:
> https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1610323

FYI: a freely accessible resource on geometric algebra: 
http://www.jaapsuter.com/geometric-algebra/

And ,of course, there is a Python package for that: https://clifford.readthedocs.io

r.

> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:19 Eric Larson <larson.eric.d at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you for the feedback. You mentioned 3D visualization in which, as
>>> far as I know, 4D homogeneous coordinates are commonly used. But we
>>> shouldn't go in this direction and consider 3D vectors and rotations only,
>>> right?
>>>
>>
>> Yeah at least at first (for GSoC or first implementation) this makes sense
>> to me. In viz I ran into needing quaternions specifically. In neuroscience
>> I've needed that and also e.g. computing the angle between two rotation
>> matrices (or quaternions), among other things.
>>
>> Great that you are interested in mentoring this project as well. I will
>>> add the idea in a basic form to the wiki. Generally I think we should leave
>>> some space for a student to investigate, instead of specifying absolutely
>>> everything. Do you agree?
>>>
>>
>> Yes that sounds reasonable to me.
>>
>> If anyone thinks this isn't within the scope of SciPy, speak now or
>> forever hold your peace :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
>>
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