Alternate Ellipse Construction

Alternate Ellipse Construction

Among the many different possibilities, an ellipse can also be constructed using a tracing of the perpendicular bisector of the segment between a point on a circle and a point in the circle. Drag the point ON the circle and try to visualize this tracing. Choose Show Trace.What happens as you move the point IN the circle to different places?

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