Magma provides the following functions to create the graphs and codes naturally associated to a projective or affine plane.

LineGraph(P) : Plane -> Grph

The line graph of the plane P.

The incidence graph of the plane P. This bipartite graph has as vertex set the union of the point set V and line set L of P. A vertex p in V is adjacent to a vertex l in L whenever p in l.

Given a plane P with v points and a finite field K, this function returns the linear code C of length v generated by the characteristic functions of the lines of P considered as vectors of the K-space K^((v)).

> P, V, L := AffinePlane(3);
> #V, #L;
9 12
> IncidenceGraph(P);
Graph
Vertex  Neighbours

1       10 11 12 19 ;
2       16 17 18 19 ;
3       13 14 15 19 ;
4       10 15 17 21 ;
5       12 14 16 21 ;
6       11 13 18 21 ;
7       10 14 18 20 ;
8       11 15 16 20 ;
9       12 13 17 20 ;
10      1 4 7 ;
11      1 6 8 ;
12      1 5 9 ;
13      3 6 9 ;
14      3 5 7 ;
15      3 4 8 ;
16      2 5 8 ;
17      2 4 9 ;
18      2 6 7 ;
19      1 2 3 ;
20      7 8 9 ;
21      4 5 6 ;

> LinearCode(P, Field(P));
[9, 6, 3] Linear Code over GF(3)
Generator matrix:
[1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0]
[0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 2]
[0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1]
[0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2]
[0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 1]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1]