Möbius Maps on the Riemann Sphere

Lesson 8 · a square grid patch rides on the sphere: move the sphere and the patch's projected shadow deforms under the induced Möbius map, over a fixed reference grid — rigid rotations realize exactly the isometric maps (PSU(2)); scaling and translation are non-rigid flows across the same fixed sphere. Inspiration drawn from Douglas Arnold & Jonathan Rogness's video Möbius Transformations Revealed.

motion

The Riemann Sphere  unit sphere, projection from N — drag to rotate

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near
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Identity (θ = 0) RIGID ROTATION
z ↦ z
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