Homogeneous Coordinates and the Projective Plane

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The points of the projective plane have three homogeneous coordinates, so that
and
,
are the same point, as long as
; these points can be represented as lines in three dimensions passing through the origin (the dotted lines),
,
,
. These lines intersect any plane
in points with the two coordinates of the Cartesian plane. This Demonstration shows the action of the transformation matrix on the lines and the points in the plane
and another such plane.
Contributed by: Eduardo Valle (May 2013)
Dog shape from: Don Cohen
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Published: May 22 2013