<div dir="ltr">Ed et al. --<div>Hope you guys saw this interesting story in the NYT Magazine yesterday about Ingrid Daubechies.  A wonderful character with a great mind.<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/magazine/ingrid-daubechies.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/magazine/ingrid-daubechies.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>TJ</div><div><img width="1" height="1" id="shtracking_1s2" src="https://tc2.shftrk.com/e/blRnyoxlvBV8073e/5jpvMy1zmrk8G1BY/mxGkn85KGR4dXZvj" alt=" " style="display:none"></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 6:04 PM Edward Angel <<a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu">angel@cs.unm.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Quaternions avoid much of the ugly trigonometry since quaternion rotation is along a great circle. They’re very useful for smooth rotations in computer graphics and many aerospace applications.<div><br></div><div>Ed<br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 20, 2021, at 9:19 AM, Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com" target="_blank">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>
  
    
  
  <div><p>Answering my own earlier question (with props) it seems that a
      (smooth) globe and piece of string would be good support for an
      intuitive approach.    My sister made a "hanging string lampshade"
      in 3rd grade by wrapping cotton string soaked in glue around a
      large balloon and letting it dry.    I inherited it when she went
      into middle school and was "too cool" for it anymore.   I would
      lay in bed and stare at it, remembering the challenges (I helped
      wrap the string) of getting the slick string to do *anything* but
      following near-great-circles.   The shadows it cast on the walls
      (and furniture) might have been my first awareness of projective
      geometry...  I abandoned it when I went to college.<br>
    </p><p>I assume (REC?) that early age-of-exploration navigators were
      more constrained by trade-winds and convenient
      resupply/port-of-call than great-circles, though misunderstanding
      spherical geometry would be very inconvenient.   <br>
    </p><p>I also believe that Polynesian stick charts would have
      great-circleness (or more-to-the-point shortest time paths) built
      into them by their nature, not any arcane understanding of
      spherical (ellipsoidal) geometry.  I'm sure they have been studied
      quite thoroughly.<br>
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    <div>On 9/19/21 3:36 PM, Stephen Guerin
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      <div dir="ltr">In the early 90s, my expat friends in Beijing would
        often debate which were the closer US Cities to Beijing by
        eyeballing the globe - wish we had this too for easy lookup back
        then. Of course, we could have used lat/longs and calculated
        haversine distances but we had pints to drink - and frankly it
        would have been difficult for me to find the algorithm in the
        nascent web back then ;-)<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 3:22
          PM Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>>
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          <div dir="auto">That gives a good view, Stephen.  Hawaii is
            farther south than I thought.  Thanks.<br>
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              Frank C. Wimberly<br>
              140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>
              Santa Fe, NM 87505<br>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 3:19
              PM Stephen Guerin <<a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" target="_blank">stephen.guerin@simtable.com</a>>
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              <div dir="ltr">I was going to post this similar site but
                Ed beat me with his :-) This one also has a globe
                view...<br>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 19, 2021
                  at 2:03 PM Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>>
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                  <div dir="auto">Thanks, Ed.  That's useful.<br>
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                      Frank C. Wimberly<br>
                      140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>
                      Santa Fe, NM 87505<br>
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                      505 670-9918<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 19,
                      2021, 1:54 PM Edward Angel <<a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">angel@cs.unm.edu</a>>
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                      <div>Close: <a href="https://www.airmilescalculator.com/distance/clt-to-hnl/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.airmilescalculator.com/distance/clt-to-hnl/</a><br>
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                              <div>_______________________</div>
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                                Ed Angel<br>
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                              <div>Founding Director, Art, Research,
                                Technology and Science Laboratory
                                (ARTS Lab)<br>
                                Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,
                                University of New Mexico<br>
                                <br>
                                1017 Sierra Pinon</div>
                              <div>Santa Fe, NM 87501<br>
                                505-984-0136 (home)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">          </span> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">      </span><a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">angel@cs.unm.edu</a></div>
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                            <div>On Sep 19, 2021, at 1:48 PM, Frank
                              Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>>
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                              <div dir="auto">Not to change the subject
                                but...
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                                <div dir="auto">A large airliner
                                  recently, 15 minutes ago, flew over
                                  Santa Fe headed west.  My Flight Radar
                                  app tells me that it's a Boeing 777
                                  going from Charlotte to Honolulu at an
                                  altitude of 38000 feet.  I wouldn't
                                  have thought that Santa Fe was on a
                                  great Circle route between those two
                                  cities.  But maybe it is.<br>
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                                    Frank C. Wimberly<br>
                                    140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>
                                    Santa Fe, NM 87505<br>
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