invariant-points-and-lines

Invariant points

What is an invariant point?

• When applying transformations to a shape or collection of points, there may be some points that stay in their original position; these are known as invariant points

How can I find invariant points?

• If the point given by position vector , is invariant under transformation  then we can say that 

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