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Cross product- square

I recently saw the following expression somewhere- $$\frac{1}{2} \left\| \frac{\vec{u}}{9} \times \frac{\vec{u} + \vec{v}}{9} \right\| + \frac{1}{2} \left\| \frac{\vec{u} + \vec{v}}{9}\times ...
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Find the sine sign given a pair of 3D vectors

I want to find the exact sine between two vectors in 3-dimensional space. Data: $x$: vector $y$: vector $z = \Vert x \times y \Vert$ I have tried this: $$\sin \alpha = \frac{\Vert z\Vert}{( ...
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How to solve cross-products including matrices?

I'm a programmer and I'm doing a whitebalance-transformation in RGB colorspace. This should work with this transformation matrix that I've found in literature: $$ \begin{pmatrix} R \\ G \\ B ...
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Cross product in higher than 3 dimensions

As I understand it, to get an $n$-dimensional cross product, you need $n-1$ vectors of dimension $n$. However my lecture notes are quite miss leading in the fact that they suggest this isn't always ...