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A tutorial introduction to projective geometric algebra (PGA), a modern, coordinate-free framework for doing euclidean geometry. PGA features: uniform representation of points, lines, and planes; robust, parallel-safe join and meet…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Charles G. Gunn

The article presents a new approach to euclidean plane geometry based on projective geometric algebra (PGA). It is designed for anyone with an interest in plane geometry, or who wishes to familiarize themselves with PGA. After a brief…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Charles G. Gunn

What is the best representation for doing euclidean geometry on computers? These notes from a SIGGRAPH 2019 short course entitled "Geometric algebra for computer graphics" introduce projective geometric algebra (PGA) as a modern framework…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Charles G. Gunn

The last two decades, since the seminal work of Selig, has seen projective geometric algebra (PGA) gain popularity as a modern coordinate-free framework for doing classical Euclidean geometry and other Cayley-Klein geometries. This…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-12-13 John Bamberg , Jeff Saunders

Historically, there have been many attempts to produce an appropriate mathematical formalism for modeling the nature of physical space, such as Euclid's geometry, Descartes' system of Cartesian coordinates, the Argand plane, Hamilton's…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 James M. Chappell , Azhar Iqbal , Derek Abbott

Distributional and neural approaches to natural language semantics have been built almost exclusively on conventional linear algebra: vectors, matrices, tensors, and the operations that accompany them. These methods have achieved remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 James Pustejovsky

We show that if PGA is understood as a subalgebra of CGA in mathematically correct sense, then the flat objects share the same representation in PGA and CGA. Particularly, we treat duality in PGA. This leads to unification of PGA and CGA…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Ales Navrat , Jaroslav Hrdina , Petr Vasik , Leo Dorst

The discussion of how to apply geometric algebra to euclidean $n$-space has been clouded by a number of conceptual misunderstandings which we first identify and resolve, based on a thorough review of crucial but largely forgotten themes…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Charles G. Gunn

In this Master of Science Thesis I introduce geometric algebra both from the traditional geometric setting of vector spaces, and also from a more combinatorial view which simplifies common relations and operations. This view enables us to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-11-07 Douglas Lundholm

By recasting metrical geometry in a purely algebraic setting, both Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries can be studied over a general field with an arbitrary quadratic form. Both an affine and a projective version of this new theory are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Norman J. Wildberger

In this paper, we present a series of techniques to describe General Relativity using Geometric Algebra (GA). We emphasize the physical interpretation of quantities and provide a step-by-step guide for performing calculations. In doing so,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Pablo Banon Perez , Maarten DeKieviet

We develop a complete theory of projective cross-ratios in n-dimensional Plane-Based Geometric Algebra (PGA), R(n,0,1), covering geometric objects of every grade: finite and ideal points, hyperplanes, and intermediate flats. For each object…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Enzo Harquin , Stephane Breuils , Pascal Monasse , Venceslas Biri , Vincent Nozick

Projective geometry provides the preferred framework for most implementations of Euclidean space in graphics applications. Translations and rotations are both linear transformations in projective geometry, which helps when it comes to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Chris Doran , Anthony Lasenby , Joan Lasenby

A tutorial of the Mathematica package CGAlgebra, for conformal geometric algebra calculations is presented. Using rule-based programming, the 5-dimensional conformal geometric algebra is implemented and defined functions simplify the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-07-01 E. Alejandra Ortiz-Duran , Jose L. Aragon

Conformal Geometric Algebra (CGA) is a framework that allows the representation of objects, such as points, planes and spheres, and deformations, such as translations, rotations and dilations as uniform vectors, called multivectors. In this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Manos Kamarianakis , George Papagiannakis

This is an introduction to geometric algebra, an alternative to traditional vector algebra that expands on it in two ways: 1. In addition to scalars and vectors, it defines new objects representing subspaces of any dimension. 2. It defines…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 Eric Chisolm

This paper is to serve as a key to the projective (homogeneous) model developed by Charles Gunn (arXiv:1101.4542 [math.MG]). The goal is to explain the underlying concepts in a simple language and give plenty of examples. It is targeted to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-12 Andrey Sokolov

In fields ranging from computer vision to signal processing and statistics, increasing computational power allows a move from classical linear models to models that incorporate non-linear phenomena. This shift has created interest in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Stefan Sommer , François Lauze , Mads Nielsen

The presentation makes use of geometric algebra, also known as Clifford algebra, in 5-dimensional spacetime. The choice of this space is given the character of first principle, justified solely by the consequences that can be derived from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose B. Almeida

Plane-based Geometric Algebra (PGA) has revealed points in a $d$-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}_{p,q,1}$ to be represented by $d$-blades rather than vectors. This discovery allows points to be factored into $d$ orthogonal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 Martin Roelfs , David Eelbode , Steven De Keninck
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