Practically everything people say about imaginary numbers you could also say about negative numbers.
Also… wrong about what?
It’s more complex than that…
cmon, get real
Think rationally
men will invent new fields of mathematics before going to therapy
I’ve always thought “imaginary” vs “real” was an unfortunate naming convention.
I don’t know about other fields, but electrical engineering uses imaginary numbers with AC circuits and changing electrical fields. Since electricity moves as waves, imaginary numbers let you represent what’s coming 90 degrees later in a compact way.
Not just electricians.
3d graphics are all about about quaternions (4d version of imaginary numbers).
Quaternions are useful, but no means necessary or intrinsic to 3d graphics.
They are useful for describing rotations in 3d space, but the same can be done with a matrix, or even Euler angles. It’s just a more calculations.
That said, basically all the major game engines use quaternions, so unless you are creating your own 3d renderer, you have to learn at least the basics about them.
Quaternions really shine at spherical interpolation (Slerp - yes thats the real terminology) between two rotations.
All numbers are imaginary. So are words.
All numbers are imaginary
It’s not like the regular numbers behave themselves. Have you ever heard a coherent, non-self referential definition of the number 3?
the only numbers that actually exist are 0 and 1. everything else is a reference to those
It’s 2 plus 1
Oh yeah? Prove it
2+1 … . … 3
What do 2 and 1 mean?
… .
So, take 2 bananas and add 1 banana
Define banana
3 is a sideways nutsack
=3
W is a nutsack getting elaborately crushed
That is an L actually
Well, it’s a W in my book.
Just one more axiom bro and it will all make sense… just one more I swear it’s consistent… BRO I just NEED one more conjecture and it will BE complete… tHe pRincIPles ARe sOLid BrO jUST TruST mE!
