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Beltrami-Klein model

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The Beltrami-Klein model realizes the hyperbolic plane inside an open Euclidean disk, with geodesics given by straight chords. Its metric differs from the Euclidean metric, and angles are generally distorted. The straight chords make geodesic convexity especially easy to see.

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