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This notion doesn't use the nonassociative algebra structure of split octonions, just the quadratic form \(Q\).
But in fact, we may equivalently define a point in \(PC\) to be a 1-dimensional null subalgebra of \( \mathbb{O}' \): a subspace of \(\mathbb{O}'\) on which the product vanishes.
We may then define a line in \(PC\) to be a collection of 1-dimensional null subalgebras that lies in some 2-dimensional null subalgebra of \(\mathbb{O}'\).