How do we interpret the determinant intuitively? Well, here is one way! This video was requested by Thecalculatorman on reddit! A few quick notes: * There are limitations to this way of thinking about the determinant, but for the most part it's solid for 3 and 2D objects. * Finding the area of the transformed unit cube is the same as finding the area of the parallelpiped, just a little easier to explain. In hindsight, I should have added this definition too. * There is a lot I skipped over, like how to perform the determinant. That wasn't the point of this video. I wanted to give people an intuitive feel for what the determinant was doing underneath. As always, the simulations were done live on: Feel free to follow me on Twitter! And the music is from Josh Woodward (sped up 1.5 times): Thanks for watching! Also, discord: