We construct an example of an animation that shows how easy it is to rotate a three-dimensional graphics object using a quaternion approach. Basically a "fancy box" is rotated about the axis (1,1,1). Note that most of the code below is used to define the graphics object. Our quaternion based Rotate function, defined earlier, then easily implements the desired rotations.

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