Conics are here

Ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas are now built into GXWeb, so you can construct, manipulate, and explore a whole new class of curves in the same workspace.

See conics in practice

The four examples below are drawn from our book, 101 Conic Sections Examples Using Geometry Expressions, which is available in electronic form that you can purchase here.

Ellipse

Parabola Subnormal

Hyperbola

Ellipse Hyperbola

Generating conics by description in GenGX

Conic support in GXWeb also opens new possibilities in GenerativeGX (“GenGX”). With conics in the underlying engine, GenGX can produce figures that include ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas from a simple description. Type or speak what you want, a parabolic trajectory, an elliptical orbit, a hyperbolic curve, and watch a mathematically correct, interactive diagram appear.