Epicycles (Patreon)

I wrote a quick program that shows what the orbits of each planets are from other planets point of view.

I was interested in this because of the quaternion article. I looked for a dynamic version of that diagram that I used in the article, the one from the encyclopedia britanica, but there were none. Seemed like it would be easy and quick to do.

I liked that it would be more about psychology and the way we work as scientists than just a simple visualization (like has become trendy on twitter).

I think one day I might do a video on the history of quaternions, and I would use these animations for it. Or even just a video on epicycles would be fun, but not high on my list for obvious reasons!