Glissettes and the Orthoptic Curve of the Ellipse
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A glissette is the geometrical locus of a point fixed to a curve sliding inside another curve. This Demonstration shows three different glissettes that are formed by points of an ellipse sliding inside a pair of orthogonal lines (the and axes).
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Contributed by: Erik Mahieu (February 2012)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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An interesting collection of glissettes can be found in [1].
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[1] R. Ferréol. "Encyclopédie des Formes Mathématiques Remarquables." Mathcurve. www.mathcurve.com.
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