▲ | lupire 4 days ago | |||||||
It's incorrect, though. The oriented real projective plane is a sphere, not a torus. The projective points at infinity (one point for every 1-D angle (R mod 2pi)) form the equator of the sphere. The T in T² is for "two-sided" , not Torus. The torus explanation that Tangram gives doesn't make sense. In a pinhole projection, the horizontal and vertical infinites do not "wrap around" to meet. There is no meaningful "horizontal" and "vertical", the system is rotationally symmetric, which forms a hemisphere of curve it to make it compact. (Half sphere because you can only see one half of the space outside a pinhole camera) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriented_projective_geometry | ||||||||
▲ | ChickenSando 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
You're right. I've messed up. The notation here is a bit misleading and I didn't dig as deep here as I should have. I'll fix the website soon. | ||||||||
| ||||||||
▲ | kevinventullo 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Indeed, I should have been a more critical reader! |