affine transformation

In math, an affine transformation is a transformation that preserves lines and parallelism.
For instance, here is an affine transformation:

\begin{equation} U’(S) = mU(s) + b \end{equation}

where m > 0, and b is unconstrained.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_transformation

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