Envelope of Two Families of Plane Curves

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The equation of the envelope of the family of curves {,
} is symmetric with respect to
and
. In this case the same curve is the envelope of the family of circles sliding along a figure-eight curve and the family of figure-eight curves sliding along a circle.
Contributed by: Maxim Rytin (March 2011)
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Published: March 7 2011