Lines in space: Part 4: Back to the diagrams [Jim Blinn's Corner]

In this series of articles we've found that we can represent an arbitrary line in projective 3-space with six numbers. We can construct this line either from two points on it or as the intersection of two planes. If we construct the line from two points S and T, with homogeneous coordinates S=[x<sub>S</sub> y<sub>S</sub> z<sub>S</sub> w<sub>S</sub>] T=[x<sub>T</sub> y<sub>T</sub> z<sub>T</sub> w<sub>T</sub>].