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Möbius transforms

A Möbius map w = (az+b)/(cz+d) sends circles and lines to circles and lines. Draw points, circles, or lines in the left plane and watch their images appear on the right.

A modern JavaScript + Canvas port of a 1999 Java applet by Terence Tao (originally MobiusApp.java / Mobius.java).

w = ( (+i)z + (+i) ) / ( (+i)z + (+i) )
z-plane — draw herew-plane (image)

Tip: the unit circle (centre 0, radius 1) under inversion maps to itself; a line not through 0 maps to a circle through the image of ∞.