Homogenous Coordinates

• In particular, increasing w makes things smaller

• We think of homogenous coordinates as defining a projective space

  • Increasing w ? “getting further away”
  • Points with w = 0 are, in this sense, projected on the plane at infinity

• Will come in handy for projection matrices

• For deeper math intuition, take a projective geometry course

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