[mettamage]

Maybe because it intersects deeply with game dev?

[lawlessone]

yes, that's the module i learnt about them in during college.

IMHO I think for me they're interesting because it felt like mathematically they straddle the line of being nearly impossible for me.

I could just barely do them and felt very accomplished when I could. Anything else was either impossible or easy by comparison.

assuming my maths skills are average here then most people have similar experiences with them.

[xanderlewis]

What in particular did you find difficult about dealing with them?

[lawlessone]

There was something called a slerp that allowed you to get an object to rotate from on orientation to another, similar to a linear interpolation.

This was fine for some things. but if you wanted something to rotate but only in a certain way it was annoying as sometimes it would get from A to B, but go through Z during its rotation.

Getting the order or multiplications right too.

[ahazred8ta]

Spherical linear interpolation, slerp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slerp (which can sometimes wrap around the wrong way)

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