Construction of ellipse, hyperbola and circle as loci
- Author:
- Simona Riva
Move points .
MAxis slider allows to select the length of the major axis of the conic, and graphically it's the circle radius.
Point P, moving on the circle, creates the locus, that is:
- an ellipse when is inside the circle: distance between foci < axis length → e < 1
- an hyperbola when is outside the circle: distance between foci > axis length → e > 1
- a circle when ≡ : distance between foci = 0 → e = 0
(e = eccentricity)
