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Intriguing Invariants of Centers of Ellipse-Inscribed Triangles

Metric Geometry 2021-08-13 v4 Computational Geometry Robotics

Abstract

We describe invariants of centers of ellipse-inscribed triangle families with two vertices fixed to the ellipse boundary and a third one which sweeps it. We prove that: (i) if a triangle center is a fixed affine combination of barycenter and orthocenter, its locus is an ellipse; (ii) and that over the family of said affine combinations, the centers of said loci sweep a line; (iii) over the family of parallel fixed vertices, said loci rigidly translate along a second line. Additionally, we study invariants of the envelope of elliptic loci over combinations of two fixed vertices on the ellipse.

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@article{arxiv.2010.09408,
  title  = {Intriguing Invariants of Centers of Ellipse-Inscribed Triangles},
  author = {Mark Helman and Ronaldo Garcia and Dan Reznik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09408},
  year   = {2021}
}

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17 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, 6 video links