Comment on functional

Hasherm0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s amazing how much a visualization can help to explain

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  Like I had to take a few higher level math classes in college since I majored in comp sci, and the difference between a professor just writing notation on a board and rambling for an hour vs a professor explaining application and using visuals to explain was such a wild difference in the quality of classes

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  • rothaine@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Meanwhile Euler was coming up with all this shit while being blind

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    • deepus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Euler: What is one banana and why does Tom have seven?

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  More specifically, the power series proof of Euler’s identity.

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• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oh sweet! That’s the magic that makes rotations work intuitively in Blender and game engines! :D

  … Still can’t say I understand it but I sure am grateful!

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I thought the magic that makes rotations work intuitively in games was quaternions.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Wait, you’re totally right! I had it turned around!

      Quaternions avoid the gimbal lock issue, and are more efficient overall, but they’re a bit more complicated to understand.

      Euler is more user-friendly on the editing side of things, and easier to understand, but it’s got some shortcomings.

      Both are an option in Blender and Godot for instance, because one might suit a given situation better than the other.

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