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Preserves straight lines and cross ratios
Given four collinear points
,
,
and
, their
cross ratio
is defined as
if
is a point at infinity the the cross ratio is given as
The cross ratio is independent of the choice of the projective coordinate system.
Subhashis Banerjee 2008-01-20