Most striking and well-known examples of affine transformation applications are computer tomography (see for instance [1]) and information compression for telecommunication systems (see [2]). This book describes affine transformations (displacements, turns, scaling, shifts) of n-dimensional figures, where n=1,2,3,4.

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