Series

Straightfamily — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. planeevery line—cylinderone parameter · parallelno meeting pointstereographicone parameter · concurrentthey meet to 1e-12equirect.one parameter · parallelno meeting point3 of 4 keep a curvethe signature has three values, not eight

    The lines a surface leaves alone

    Only the plane draws every straight line straight, which is easy to measure and which gets read as though a curved surface bent everything. It does not. Every curved picture surface here keeps a one-parameter family of world lines exactly straight, and the family is a curve on the sphere of lines rather than a region of it — so a grid of samples finds none of it, which is what the first version of this measurement reported.

    part 5 · curved

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