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  2. Tangent circles - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, tangent circles (also known as kissing circles) are circles in a common plane that intersect in a single point. There are two types of tangency : internal and external. Many problems and constructions in geometry are related to tangent circles; such problems often have real-life applications such as trilateration and maximizing the ...

  3. Pencil (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A hyperbolic pencil (blue family of circles in the figure) is defined by two generators that do not intersect each other at any point. It includes real circles, imaginary circles, and two degenerate point circles called the Poncelet points of the pencil. Each point in the plane belongs to exactly one circle of the pencil.

  4. Intersection (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    intersection of two polygons: window test. If one wants to determine the intersection points of two polygons, one can check the intersection of any pair of line segments of the polygons (see above). For polygons with many segments this method is rather time-consuming. In practice one accelerates the intersection algorithm by using window tests ...

  5. List of circle topics - Wikipedia

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    Pappus chain – Ring of circles between two tangent circles; Polar circle (geometry) – Unique circle centered at a given triangle's orthocenter; Power center (geometry) – For 3 circles, the intersection of the radical axes of each pair; Salinon – Geometric shape; Semicircle – Geometric shape; Squircle – Shape between a square and a ...

  6. Orthogonal circles - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, two circles are said to be orthogonal if their respective tangent lines at the points of intersection are perpendicular (meet at a right angle). A straight line through a circle's center is orthogonal to it, and if straight lines are also considered as a kind of generalized circles , for instance in inversive geometry , then an ...

  7. Power of a point - Wikipedia

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    where A 1 and A 2 are the centers of the two circles and r 1 and r 2 are their radii. The power of a point arises in the special case that one of the radii is zero. If the two circles are orthogonal, the Darboux product vanishes. If the two circles intersect, then their Darboux product is ⁡

  8. Elliptic geometry - Wikipedia

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    As any two great circles intersect, there are no parallel lines in elliptic geometry. In elliptic geometry, two lines perpendicular to a given line must intersect. In fact, all perpendiculars to a given line intersect at a single point called the absolute pole of that line.

  9. Straightedge and compass construction - Wikipedia

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    Creating the one point or two points in the intersection of a line and a circle (if they intersect) Creating the one point or two points in the intersection of two circles (if they intersect). For example, starting with just two distinct points, we can create a line or either of two circles (in turn, using each point as centre and passing ...