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Square grid
Here we apply the shear to a more extensive grid of squares.
Here we are touching on the idea that the shear applies not just to isolated objects but to the whole plane: we can imagine covering the whole plane in a grid of squares and transforming the plane into a grid of parallelgrams.
On the next page we consider an alternative grid.