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[Ashwin Nanjappa <>]

Max wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've found a method of Plane_3
>     Aff_transformation_3 transform_to_2d() const;
> but I cannot find any explanation of it in the doc.
> 
> Could anybody please tell me the meaning of it?

It seems to be an internal function used by Plane_3::to_2d() and
Plane_3::to_3d(). Deriving from the documentation for to_2d(), I would say
this function "returns the affine transformation which maps the plane_3
onto the xy-plane, with the z-coordinate removed."

HTH,
~ash