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Homogeneous coordinates

In this video, QUT robotics professor Peter Corke explains how to convert Cartesian coordinates to homogeneous coordinates and vice versa.

Let’s recap the basics of homogeneous coordinates to represent points on a Euclidian plane.

This video outlines how to represent points in a two-dimensional Cartesian space. We look at how to convert Cartesian coordinates to homogeneous coordinates and vice versa. Knowing this homogeneous representation is going to be very handy for us in this course.

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