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emm

What about lines that are parallel to the planes? Why can we just ignore them?

chenruis

I think we can ignore them because we are caring about mapping the point p on a designated 2D plane to the representation of \hat{p}? So for arbitrary point p on the plane, as long as the plane does not cross O, the line would be unique. It's possible that lines are parallel to the plane, but a few slides later the slide is only discussing about doing affine transformation on the point p on a 2D plane, and I think that restricts the line cannot be parallel to the plane.

It's just a random thinking, I don't know for sure, too.

ohmygearbox

I find it kind of cool that the homogenous coordinates are also used in other fields like vision and robotics.

Shep

Story of drawing 3D on a 2D screen?