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I really love the translation "hack". The 2D plane is mapped onto the z=1 plane, and then we apply an x-y shear in 3D space. This keeps the 3D origin at the origin, but shifts around the z=1 plane without distorting it, so that when we project back to 2D it looks like a translation.



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