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List of Figures
Example of the use of geometric algebra 2
Code to generate Figure 5
Example of the use of geometric algebra 6
The outer product and its interpretations 11
Spanning homogeneous subspaces in a 3-D vector space 25
Imagining vector addition 27
Bivector representations 32
Imagining bivector addition in 2-D space 33
Bivector addition in 3-D space 34
The associativity of the outer product 35
Solving linear equations with bivectors 40
Intersecting lines in the plane 41
Code for drawing bivectors 58
Drawing bivectors screenshot (Example 1) 59
The orientation of front- and back-facing