This answer has to do with the invariance of cross ratios. Thus I make a small digression to say what cross ratios are. This treatment is based on the beautiful treatment in "What is Mathematics" by Courant and Robbins. In the plane, a point p determines a map between two lines called the projection map. To project point x on line L1 to a point on line L2, draw a line through p and x and see where it hits L2. See Figure 1.