Those Amazing Desargues Configurations

Aiden A. Bruen1, James M. McQuillan2
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
2Department of Computer Science, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, 61455, USA

Abstract

Given 2 triangles in a plane over a field \( F \) which are in perspective from a vertex \( V \), the resulting Desargues line or axis \( l \) may or may not be on \( V \). To avoid degenerate cases, we assume that the union of the vertices of the 2 triangles is a set of six points with no three collinear. Our work then provides a detailed analysis of situations when \( V \) is on \( l \) for any \( F \), finite or infinite.