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Conic Sections

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Five points determine a conic section (ellipse, hyperbola, etc.). Here I have kept four points fixed and moved the fifth point around a circle. We see ellipses and hyperbolas.

Please enable Java for an interactive construction (with Cinderella).

The above Java animation was created with Cinderella (a geometry program).


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