collinear transformation
collinear transformation
[kə′lin·ē·ər ‚tranz·fər′mā·shən] (optics)
The mapping of object space into image space produced by an ideal optical image-forming system, in which a unique image point corresponds to each object point and every straight line in the object space has as its corresponding image a unique straight line.
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