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Concept

Plücker coordinates

Plücker coordinates are a way to represent a line in 3D space using six numbers instead of the usual two-point or point-plus-direction form. For a line with direction vector d and any point o on it, the Plücker representation is the pair (d, m) where m = o × d is the…

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Plücker coordinates, explained · Fig. 1