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We analyze loci of triangle centers over variants of two-well known triangle porisms: the bicentric and confocal families. Specifically, we evoke the general version of Poncelet's closure theorem whereby individual sides can be made tangent…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Ronaldo Garcia , Boris Odehnal , Dan Reznik

We study loci and properties of a Parabola-inscribed family of Poncelet polygons whose caustic is a focus-centered circle. This family is the polar image of a special case of the bicentric family with respect to its circumcircle. We…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Filipe Bellio , Ronaldo Garcia , Dan Reznik

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 $\Gamma$.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-19 R. Schwartz , S. Tabachnikov

We study families of triangles that are inscribed in a fixed circle and circumscribed about a central conic, extending the classical Chapple--Euler relation within the framework of Poncelet geometry. We establish several geometric…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Mohammad Hassan Murad

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…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Ronaldo Garcia , Dan Reznik

We study Poncelet's Theorem in finite projective coordinate planes over the field $GF(p)$ and concentrate on a particular pencil of conics. For pairs of such conics we investigate whether we can find polygons with $n$ sides, which are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Norbert Hungerbühler , Katharina Kusejko

We study the loci of the Brocard points over two selected families of triangles: (i) 2 vertices fixed on a circumference and a third one which sweeps it, (ii) Poncelet 3-periodics in the homothetic ellipse pair. Loci obtained include…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Ronaldo Garcia , Dan Reznik

We tour several Euclidean properties of Poncelet triangles inscribed in an ellipse and circumscribing the incircle, including loci of triangle centers and envelopes of key objects. We also show that a number of degenerate behaviors are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Mark Helman , Ronaldo A. Garcia , Dan Reznik

The celebrated Poncelet porism is usually studied for a pair of smooth conics that are in a general position. Here we discuss Poncelet porism in the real plane - affine or projective, when that is not the case, i.e. the conics have at least…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vladimir Dragovic , Milena Radnovic

We present a theory which predicts if the locus of a triangle center over certain Poncelet triangle families is a conic or not. We consider families interscribed in (i) the confocal pair and (ii) an outer ellipse and an inner concentric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Mark Helman , Dominique Laurain , Dan Reznik , Ronaldo Garcia

This paper investigates the differential-geometric and topological properties of the Cayley condition in Poncelet porism for triangles, defined as the locus of pairs of non-degenerate conics that admit a Poncelet triangle. While the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Yirmeyahu Kaminski

We study the locus of the Circumcenter of Mass of Poncelet polygons, and the limit of the Center of Mass (when we consider the polygon as a "homogeneous lamina") for degenerate Poncelet polygons. We also provide a proof for one of Dan…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Ana C. Chavez-Caliz

We prove some recent experimental observations of D. Reznik concerning periodic billiard orbits in ellipses. For example, the sum of cosines of the angles of a periodic billiard polygon remains constant in the one-parameter family of such…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Arseniy Akopyan , Richard Schwartz , Serge Tabachnikov

We prove that over a generic Poncelet triangle family, the locus of the circumcenter of an inversive triangle is a conic. Additionally, we prove an earlier conjecture: over generic Poncelet triangles, two unique points exist which maintain…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Ronaldo Garcia , Shmuel Mark Helman , Dan Reznik

The 1d family of Poncelet polygons interscribed between two circles is known as the Bicentric family. Using elliptic functions and Liouville's theorem, we show (i) that this family has invariant sum of internal angle cosines and (ii) that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Pedro Roitman , Ronaldo Garcia , Dan Reznik

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…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Ronaldo Garcia , Liliana Gheorghe , Peter Moses , Dan Reznik

We give a projective proof of the butterfly porism for cyclic quadrilaterals and present a general reversion porism for polygons with an arbitrary number of vertices on a conic. We also investigate projective properties of the porisms.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Lorenz Halbeisen , Norbert Hungerbühler , Marco Schiltknecht

Via simulation, we discover and prove curious new Euclidean properties and invariants of the Poncelet family of harmonic polygons.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Ronaldo Garcia , Dan Reznik , Pedro Roitman

We introduce Fregier ellipses which generalize the Fregier point in euclidean geometry. Subject is related to Dynamical Systems and Poncelet's closure theorem aka Poncelet porism and displaying geometric invariants (area,angles). Special…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Dominique Laurain

We describe four special families of ellipse-inscribed Poncelet triangles about the incircle which maintain certain triangle centers stationary and which also display interesting conservations.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Ronaldo A. Garcia , Mark Helman , Dan Reznik
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