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Comment by Certhas

But why would you remember a right hand or left hand rule? bivectors don't require you to.

x ^ y = x y - y x^T is the generator of the rotation that rotates a vector in the direction y into the direction of x. There is absolutely nothing to remember, and you can work this out immediately from just multiplying out the matrices:

exp(epsilon x ^ y) v ~ v + epsilon x ^ y * v = v + epsilon x (y,v) - epsilon y (x,v)

We add a little bit in the x direction and remove a bit in the y direction.

The whole view of rotations happening round an axis is just a coincidence of 3d space, it doesn't make sense in higher dimensions. On the other hand rotations always do (compose into ones that) happen on planes.

parent Certhas 6 years ago

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