Snappets: A VR user interface for animation with bendable vectors	

Hamish Todd		

Current animation software is extremely complicated and difficult for newcomers, having hundreds of buttons and menus to manipulate varied data structures. This project aims to create a virtual reality computer program, Snappets, with an intuitive graphical user interface while also offering the customizability of modern procedural animation. The design involves giving users direct control, with their hands, over structures in Projective Geometric Algebra; this creates a visualization of mathematically sophisticated tools including Poisson brackets, exterior algebra, geometric flags, and the Dual Quaternion exponential and logarithm. This has the potential to introduce even young children, not just to animation, but also to linear algebra.