15-Point Projective Space
This Demonstration shows a representation of the smallest projective 3-space, that is, the smallest geometry that satisfies the postulates of incidence and existence of synthetic projective geometry and that can be coordinatized by four homogeneous coordinates. It contains 15 points, 15 planes, and 35 lines. Each line is incident with exactly three points. Each plane is a Fano plane. No particular analytic geometric meaning should be attached to the diagram, although it is useful for visualizing symmetries. This space is known as , the 3D projective space over the field of integers mod 2, .
Synthetic projective geometry is a system based on a set of postulates, where points and lines are undefined elements. Postulates of incidence define how points and lines are related, and postulates of existence eliminate trivial cases. It can be shown that the smallest 3-space that satisfies the set of postulates contains 15 points. The smallest projective plane (i.e. 2-space) contains seven points and seven lines and is known as the Fano plane.
Some of the lines are shown as "circles"; one such as CIJ merely means that it is the unique line incident with points C, I, and J.
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