Ellipse Rolling around Another Ellipse

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This Demonstration draws the roulette of a generator point on an ellipse that rolls without slipping around a base ellipse.
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Contributed by: Erik Mahieu (July 2014)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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With the rolling ellipse in its initial position to the right of the base ellipse, define two points:
1. The point on the base ellipse is at an arc length
from its intersection with the positive
axis.
2. The point on the rolling ellipse is at an arc length
from the intersection with its semimajor axis.
Also define two angles:
3. is the angle subtending an arc of length
on the base ellipse.
4. is the angle between the tangent line on the rolling ellipse at
and the
axis.
Increasing rolls the ellipse around the base ellipse by means of two geometric transformations on points
on the ellipse, performed by the Wolfram Language function transfoEC(ϕ,{x,y},e,n) that consists of a translation by the vector
and a rotation around
through the angle
.
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