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We revisit constructions based on triads of conics with foci at pairs of vertices of a reference triangle. We find that their 6 vertices lie on well-known conics, whose type we analyze. We give conditions for these to be circles and/or…
The locus of the centers of mass of the family of Poncelet polygons, inscribed into a conic $\Gamma$ and circumscribed about a conic $\gamma$, is a conic homothetic to $\Gamma$.
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