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Can you please formally define what a spinor is? Like, mathematically, what are they?
by bollu 6y ago
Can you please formally define what a spinor is? Like, mathematically, what are they?
- aeternum 6y agoA quaternion is a (more-commonly known?) type of spinor which is often used in 3d graphics in matrix form to perform rotations. Spinors are difficult to describe in an HN post since they require a good amount of linear algebra, but my favorite explanation is probably here: http://www.weylmann.com/spinor.pdf http://www.weylmann.com/spinor.pdf