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Family Ties: Relating Poncelet 3-Periodics by their Properties

Metric Geometry 2021-07-14 v3 Computational Geometry Robotics

Abstract

We compare loci types and invariants across Poncelet families interscribed in three distinct concentric Ellipse pairs: (i) ellipse-incircle, (ii) circumcircle-inellipse, and (iii) homothetic. Their metric properties are mostly identical to those of 3 well-studied families: elliptic billiard (confocal pair), Chapple's poristic triangles, and the Brocard porism. We therefore organized them in three related groups.

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@article{arxiv.2012.11270,
  title  = {Family Ties: Relating Poncelet 3-Periodics by their Properties},
  author = {Ronaldo Garcia and Dan Reznik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.11270},
  year   = {2021}
}

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20 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables, 18 video links