There you have it, the basic operations of quaternions. Hopefully you now have enough information to get some use out of them. Throughout the next few chapters, you will use them to provide smooth animation for your 3D models. If you desire to learn more about the background and the math behind quaternions, I would suggest picking up book devoted solely to them. W. R. Hamilton published several on his discov\u00adery, and many people have devoted manuscripts to quaternions as well. Just search your favorite online bookstore (most \u201cphysical\u201d bookstores do not carry books such as these) and see what you find. There are also many online resources and sites that cover the ins and outs of quater\u00adnions. Load up your favorite Internet search engine and search away.<\/p>\n
That concludes the math section. Next up, you will begin to learn about 3D model formats. The book starts with simple formats such as AliaslWavefront\u2019s Object format (OBJ) and id Software\u2019s MD2 format, originally created for Quake II. The book then moves on to more complicated formats, such as MilkShape 3D\u2019s MS3D and id Software\u2019s MD3 format.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There you have it, the basic operations of quaternions. Hopefully you now have enough information to get some use out of them. Throughout the next few chapters, you will use them to provide smooth animation for your 3D models. If you desire to learn more about the background and the math behind quaternions, I would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dbym.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dbym.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dbym.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dbym.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dbym.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3dbym.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dbym.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dbym.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dbym.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}