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Shear mapping

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In plane geometry, a shear mapping is an affine transformation that displaces each point in a fixed direction by an amount proportional to that point's signed distance from a given line running parallel to that same direction. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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    In plane geometry, a shear mapping is an affine transformation that displaces each point in a fixed direction by an amount proportional to its signed distance from a given line parallel to that direction.
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    In plane geometry, a shear mapping is an affine transformation that displaces each point in a fixed direction by an amount proport
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