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Pursuit Curves

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Given a moving prey (black path) with unit speed and a time-dependent position , a predator (colored path), moving with speed , runs at all times in the direction of the current position of the prey.

Contributed by: Michael Trott (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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