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abetusk • today at 8:44 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

The motivation is better than most, trying to treat infinity as just another case instead of an exceptional one, but, to me at least, it still feels like a "hack" to put in a third dimension and then insist on dividing by it to reproject whenever you want to do anything useful.

I'm a little used to the trick but it'd be nice to give some deeper motivation of why the trick works in the first place and why this particular representation.