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cadamsdotcomtoday at 4:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

What sort of projection is this that turns a 3-dimensional space into a triangle!

Fancy projection math is only for after coffee!


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jonahxtoday at 4:34 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex

Common for visualizing mixtures of three things!

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moultanotoday at 5:06 AM

It's easy, if you normalize it so that it sums to one, it drops a dimension, and becomes an equilateral triangle.