Visualizing Quaternions — Live Player Count & Stats

The yellow arrow is the axis-angle representation of the orientation, the green ellipsoid is the quaternion. From the quaternion (w,x,y,z): w is the wideness, v=(x,y,z) v.magnitude is the tallness, and the whole thing points in the direction v. Quaternions do not lend themselves to easy visualization. Read my wiki article about quaternions! http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Quaternions_for_rotation