Generating a Cardioid IV: Feet of Perpendiculars

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System
Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.
Consider the set consisting of the feet of the perpendiculars dropped from a particular point on a given circle onto all possible tangents to the circle. This set of points is a cardioid.
Contributed by: Jaime Rangel-Mondragon (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
Snapshots
Details
detailSectionParagraphPermanent Citation
"Generating a Cardioid IV: Feet of Perpendiculars"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/GeneratingACardioidIVFeetOfPerpendiculars/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: March 7 2011