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by Ericson2314 170 days ago
Yes people want to mentally rotate, but that's not correct. This is not a "geometric" coordinate system independent operation.

IMO this is a basic risk to graphs. It is great to use imagery to engage the spatial reasoning parts of our brain. But sometimes, it is deceiving — like this case —because we impute geometric structure which isn't true about the mathematical construct being visualized.