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In projective geometry, a plane at infinity is the hyperplane at infinity of a three dimensional projective space or to any plane contained in the hyperplane at infinity of any projective space of higher dimension. This article will be concerned solely with the three-dimensional case.

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Plane at infinity

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a plane at infinity is the hyperplane at infinity of a three dimensional projective space or to any plane contained in the hyperplane at infinity of...

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Line at infinity

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In geometry and topology, the line at infinity is a projective line that is added to the real (affine) plane in order to give closure to, and remove the...

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Point at infinity

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point at infinity or ideal point is an idealized limiting point at the "end" of each line. In the case of an affine plane (including the Euclidean plane),...

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Infinity

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also refers to a line at infinity in plane geometry, a plane at infinity in three-dimensional space, and a hyperplane at infinity for general dimensions...

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Projective plane

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do not intersect. A projective plane can be thought of as an ordinary plane equipped with additional "points at infinity" where parallel lines intersect...

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Complex plane

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complex plane plus the point at infinity, is known as the extended complex plane. We speak of a single "point at infinity" when discussing complex analysis...

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Cylinder

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on the plane at infinity. If the cone is a quadratic cone, the plane at infinity (which passes through the vertex) can intersect the cone at two real...

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Hyperplane at infinity

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projective completion due to the addition of the hyperplane at infinity. Line at infinity Plane at infinity Albrecht Beutelspacher & Ute Rosenbaum (1998) Projective...

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Circular section

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the plane at infinity. Thus, one has a circular section if and only C has at least two real points and P contains one of these lines at infinity (that...

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Tetrahemihexahedron

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the dual figures have corresponding vertices at infinity; properly, on the real projective plane at infinity. In Magnus Wenninger's Dual Models, they are...

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Conic section

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line at infinity, obtaining a projective plane, the apparent difference vanishes: the branches of a hyperbola meet in two points at infinity, making it...

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Outline of geometry

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Desarguesian plane Line at infinity Point at infinity Plane at infinity Hyperplane at infinity Projective line Projective plane Oval (projective plane) Roman...

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Paraboloid

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is tangent to the plane at infinity. Plane sections The plane sections of an elliptic paraboloid can be: a parabola, if the plane is parallel to the...

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Projective geometry

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Projective geometry can be modeled by the affine plane (or affine space) plus a line (hyperplane) "at infinity" and then treating that line (or hyperplane)...

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Real projective plane

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coordinates below) while there are also some “points in the infinity”. The real projective plane is also often described topologically, in terms of a construction...

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Plane mirror

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only for a specific conditions . However the focal length of a plane mirror is infinity; its optical power is zero. Using the mirror equation, where d...

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Circular points at infinity

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circular points at infinity (also called cyclic points or isotropic points) are two special points at infinity in the complex projective plane that are contained...

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Complex projective space

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The Euclidean plane, together with its horizon, is called the real projective plane, and the horizon is sometimes called a line at infinity. By the same...

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Quadric

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or the hyperboloid of two sheets, depending on whether the chosen plane at infinity cuts the quadric in the empty set, in a point, or in a nondegenerate...

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Homogeneous coordinates

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projective plane. The real projective plane can be thought of as the Euclidean plane with additional points added, which are called points at infinity, and...

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Riemann sphere

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the extended complex plane (also called the closed complex plane): the complex plane plus one point at infinity. This extended plane represents the extended...

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Dual polyhedron

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never reaches infinity, the projective equivalent, called extended Euclidean space, may be formed by adding the required 'plane at infinity'. Some theorists...

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List of algebraic geometry topics

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cross-ratio Projective plane Line at infinity Complex projective plane Complex projective space Plane at infinity, hyperplane at infinity Projective frame Projective...

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Heptagonal tiling honeycomb

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meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is an tetrahedron, {3,3}. The "ideal surface" projection below is a plane-at-infinity, in the...

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Infinity Stones

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The Infinity Stones are fictional items in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, based on the Infinity Gems of the Marvel Comics. As expounded...

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Projective space

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at infinity. A projective space may thus be viewed as the extension of a Euclidean space, or, more generally, an affine space with points at infinity...

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