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Visualizing Quaternions with Stereographic Projection

3Blue1Brown · Explainer · YouTube title: Visualizing the 4d numbers Quaternions
Why it's here

HN commenters recommend it as the best visual explanation of quaternions and a good way to visualize higher dimensions.

What it covers

3Blue1Brown builds visual intuition for quaternions, showing how to think about this four-dimensional number system using stereographic projection and rotations in 3D space. It is part one of a two-part series with an interactive companion site.