In computer science, a 4D vector is a 4-component vector data type. Uses include homogeneous coordinates for 3-dimensional space in computer graphics...
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AoS and SoA (section 4D vectors)
(facilitated by the superscalar issue of permutes). Some vector maths libraries align floating point 4D vectors with the SIMD register to leverage the associated...
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Glossary of computer graphics (redirect from View vector)
vector A unit vector in 3D space. 4D vector A common datatype in graphics code, holding homogeneous coordinates or RGBA data, or simply a 3D vector with...
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Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space (redirect from Rotations in 4D)
with the group of orientation-preserving isometric linear mappings of a 4D vector space with inner product over the real numbers onto itself. With respect...
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areas and anti-aliasing of the edges of opaque regions. Each pixel is a 4D vector. The term does not define what RGB color space is being used. It also...
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Four-dimensional space (redirect from 4D space)
experiences of everyday life. Single locations in Euclidean 4D space can be given as vectors or 4-tuples, i.e., as ordered lists of numbers such as (x,...
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Emotion Engine (redirect from PS2 vector unit)
vertex shader pipelines. Each VPU features 32 128-bit vector SIMD registers (holding 4D vector data), 16 16-bit fixed-point registers, four floating point...
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Quaternion (redirect from Vector quaternion)
commutative. Quaternions provide a definition of the quotient of two vectors in a three-dimensional space. Quaternions are generally represented in...
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Cinema 4D is a 3D software suite developed by the German company Maxon. As of R21, only a single version of Cinema 4D is available. It replaces all previous...
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"C.O.F.F.E.E") was a computer scripting language that forms part of CINEMA 4D, a proprietary 3D graphics application. Although presented as an acronym the...
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Multivariate normal distribution (redirect from Normal random vector)
normal distribution to higher dimensions. One definition is that a random vector is said to be k-variate normally distributed if every linear combination...
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Light field (redirect from 4D light fields)
A light field, or lightfield, is a vector function that describes the amount of light flowing in every direction through every point in a space. The space...
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Dimension (redirect from High-dimensional vector space)
that was found necessary to describe electromagnetism. The four dimensions (4D) of spacetime consist of events that are not absolutely defined spatially...
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Special relativity (section 4D spacetime)
quantity to a spacelike vector quantity, and we have 4d vectors, or "four-vectors", in Minkowski spacetime. The components of vectors are written using tensor...
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Four-momentum (redirect from Momentum Four-Vector)
four-dimensional spacetime. Momentum is a vector in three dimensions; similarly four-momentum is a four-vector in spacetime. The contravariant four-momentum...
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symbol {4,3,3} with hyperoctahedral symmetry of order 384. Constructed as a 4D hyperprism made of two parallel cubes, it can be named as a composite Schläfli...
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Four-current (redirect from Charge four-vector)
density, with units of charge per unit time per unit area. Also known as vector current, it is used in the geometric context of four-dimensional spacetime...
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Minkowski space (redirect from Null vector (Minkowski space))
is the four-velocity of the particle, satisfying u2 = 1 and s is the 4D spin vector, which is also the Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector satisfying s2 = −1 and...
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In supersymmetry, 4D N = 1 {\displaystyle {\mathcal {N}}=1} supergravity is the theory of supergravity in four dimensions with a single supercharge. It...
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Bivector (redirect from 2-vector space)
mathematics, a bivector or 2-vector is a quantity in exterior algebra or geometric algebra that extends the idea of scalars and vectors. Considering a scalar...
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In mathematics, a super vector space is a Z 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{2}} -graded vector space, that is, a vector space over a field K {\displaystyle...
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Harmonic tensors (section Harmonic 4D tensors)
\right|^{2}\mathbf {\nabla } _{\mathbf {y} },} where y i {\displaystyle y_{i}} is a 4D vector, i = 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 {\displaystyle i=1,2,3,4} , y = ( r , τ ) , | y | 2...
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numerical representations called tokens, and each token is converted into a vector via lookup from a word embedding table. At each layer, each token is then...
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Supermultiplet (redirect from Vector supermultiplet)
Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino. The most commonly used supermultiplets are vector multiplets, chiral multiplets (in d = 4 , N = 1 {\displaystyle d=4,{\mathcal...
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Wigner–Eckart theorem (section Motivating example: position operator matrix elements for 4d → 2p transition)
all possible 4d orbitals (i.e., the 5 states m = −2, −1, 0, 1, 2 and their quantum superpositions) form a 5-dimensional abstract vector space. Rotating...
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Rotation (section Rotation of vectors)
of change of a vector independently influence only the magnitude or orientation of the vector respectively. Hence, a rotating vector always has a non-zero...
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Shapefile (category GIS vector file formats)
The shapefile format is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software. It is developed and regulated by Esri as a mostly...
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Ten components are identified with the 4D spacetime metric, four components with the electromagnetic vector potential, and one component with an unidentified...
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In vector calculus, the divergence theorem, also known as Gauss's theorem or Ostrogradsky's theorem, is a theorem relating the flux of a vector field through...
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Rotation formalisms in three dimensions (redirect from Gibbs vector)
needs to track a target. Consider a rigid body, with three orthogonal unit vectors fixed to its body (representing the three axes of the object's local coordinate...
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