Perpendicular Bisector Trace of a Parametric Function

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Tracing the perpendicular bisector of the segment joining an arbitrary point and another point on a circle yields conics, which have foci at the center of the circle and at the arbitrary point. With other functions, however, the trace generates strange patterns and curves. Choose from several possible functions and watch the animation, or just view the trace. The locator determines one of the endpoints of the line segment, and the other moves with the function.

Contributed by: Nathan Wong (August 2012)
(Mathematica Summer Camp 2012)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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