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by bsilvereagle 926 days ago
When moving from 5->4 the w sliders are [0,0,0.5,1,0,0].

When moving from 4->3 they become [0,0,1].

When moving from 3->4 they become [0,0,0,1,0,0].

Clicking 'reset' or manually changing the w slider to [0,0,0.5,1,0,0] results in the expected animation.

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Might seem counter intuitive but that's the intended behavior. Instead of looking at the order of values think of it as the angular velocity state associated with a rotation plane. Worth noting that q1q4, for example, refers to the rotation plane of the 1st and 4th dimensions.

5: q1q4 = 0.5, q2q3 = 1.0, rest = 0.0 5->4: q1q4 = 0.5, q2q3 = 1.0, rest = 0.0 4->3: We no longer have the q1q4 plane available therefore q2q3 = 1.0, rest = 0.0 3->4: Now we have the q1q4 plane back but the state has been cleared from previous interactions Going to a lower dimension essentially deletes previously set state of higher dimensional planes because they don't exist at that point.

When resetting it just goes back to the default configuration.

This makes sense. Please excuse my post!
No problem! I'm glad it cleared your doubts.