Generator

projection

A generator in the algebra library, called 5 times across 1 essays. Below: what it draws at its defaults and at each mode an essay asks for, what it checks while drawing, and everywhere it is used.

projection is one function. Everything below came out of it during this build, at parameters taken from the essays rather than invented for this page — so a figure here is the same figure a reader meets in an essay, and if the generator changes, this page changes with it.

At its defaults

The dot product as a shadowTwo vectors and the shadow the first casts on the second. The shadow is 2.425 long and b is 4.123, so the dot product is 10.000.abshadowa · b = 10.00= 2.43 × 4.12

show: "signs"

The sign of a dot product is the side the shadow falls onOne vector held fixed and another swung through five angles. The dot product is positive while the shadow points along b, zero at a right angle, and negative beyond it.25°a · b = 2.1870°a · b = 0.8290°a · b = 0.00130°a · b = -1.54165°a · b = -2.32

What it checks while it draws

Collected by running the family and listening to lib/verify.js, not written here. The count is how many separate times this build put that claim to the test.

Where it is called

Changing this generator changes every figure on this list. That is what makes the list worth publishing rather than keeping in a check script.

The whole library · What the figures prove