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This has a particularly simple description when ''r'' = 1 (i.e. when ''T'' is an edo), ''n'' = 3 (for example, when ''S'' is the [[5-limit]], 2.3.7 or 2.5.7) and ''k'' = 2 (so that we're considering the equivalence continua of rank-2 temperaments associated with an edo), as then '''G''' = Gr(1, 2) = '''R'''P<sup>1</sup> (the real projective line), which can be viewed as a circle. Then the continuum corresponds to the set of lines with rational slope passing through the origin on the Cartesian plane '''R'''<sup>2</sup> where the lattice of ker(''T'') lives. The lattice of ker(''T'') is generated by a [[basis]] of some pair of two commas ''u'' and ''v'' in ''S'' tempered out by the edo; view the plane as having two perpendicular axes corresponding to ''u'' and ''v'' directions. A rational point, i.e. a temperament on the continuum, then corresponds to a rational ratio ''p''/''q'', where ''u''<sup>''p''</sup>/''v''<sup>''q''</sup> is tempered out by the temperament.  
This has a particularly simple description when ''r'' = 1 (i.e. when ''T'' is an edo), ''n'' = 3 (for example, when ''S'' is the [[5-limit]], 2.3.7 or 2.5.7) and ''k'' = 2 (so that we're considering the equivalence continua of rank-2 temperaments associated with an edo), as then '''G''' = Gr(1, 2) = '''R'''P<sup>1</sup> (the real projective line), which can be viewed as a circle. Then the continuum corresponds to the set of lines with rational slope passing through the origin on the Cartesian plane '''R'''<sup>2</sup> where the lattice of ker(''T'') lives. The lattice of ker(''T'') is generated by a [[basis]] of some pair of two commas ''u'' and ''v'' in ''S'' tempered out by the edo; view the plane as having two perpendicular axes corresponding to ''u'' and ''v'' directions. A rational point, i.e. a temperament on the continuum, then corresponds to a rational ratio ''p''/''q'', where ''u''<sup>''p''</sup>/''v''<sup>''q''</sup> is tempered out by the temperament.  


A higher-dimensional example: ''r'' = 1, ''n'' = 4 (e.g. when ''S'' is the [[7-limit]]), and ''k'' = 2, our Grassmannian becomes Gr(2, 3), which can be identified with '''R'''P<sup>2</sup>, the real projective plane. [More to come...]
A higher-dimensional example: When ''r'' = 1, ''n'' = 4 (e.g. when ''S'' is the [[7-limit]]), and ''k'' = 2, our Grassmannian becomes Gr(2, 3), which can be identified with '''R'''P<sup>2</sup> (the real projective plane, the space of lines through the origin in 3-dimensional space) by taking the unique line '''R'''''v'' perpendicular to the plane of commas tempered out for each temperament. Say that this vector ''v'' has components (''v''<sub>1</sub>, ''v''<sub>2</sub>, ''v''<sub>3</sub>), so that the plane has equation  ''v''<sub>1</sub>''x'' + ''v''<sub>2</sub>''y'' + ''v''<sub>3</sub>''z'' = 0. [More to come...]
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