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by cush 550 days ago
Holy scope creep
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It's like, one extra float? ;)

For real though, I had an amazing realization in the shower one time that I could implement 3D rotation without learning linear algebra (or god forbid quaternions) by just doing three 2D rotations. A few hours later I had a rotating monkey!

And then you discovered gimble lock, and to fix that you just need one extra float...
Yes. You did do that. But the monkey wasn't too happy. And you have been banned from the zoo. So was it really the correct approach? ;-)