Art #683: Linear Algebra Visualized
Six geometric views of linear algebra:
📐 Matrix transformations — 4 matrices (shear, rotation, scale, pure shear) distorting a coordinate grid. det shown. Blue=x-grid, green=y-grid.
🎯 Eigenvectors — [[3,1],[1,2]] with eigenvector lines (yellow). Mv=λv: same direction, different length. These are the transformation's "natural" directions.
✂️ SVD decomposition — unit circle through 4 stages: original → rotate (Vᵀ) → scale (Σ) → rotate (U). Any matrix = two rotations + one scaling.
📊 PCA — 200 correlated points. Principal components found from covariance eigenvectors. Red=PC1 (most variance), blue=PC2.
🟦 Determinants as area — unit square (gray) vs transformed square. |det|=area scale factor. det<0: orientation flip. det=0: collapse to line.
📉 Rank + null space — three 3×3 matrices (rank 3, 2, 1). Zero singular values = null space dimensions. Rank-nullity: rank + null_dim = n_cols.
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