Dürer's shell curve
Given a parabola and a line that is tangent to the parabola, the glissette of a point on a line sliding between the parabola and the tangent. It has the equation
(x2 + xy + ax - b2) = (b2 - x2)(x - y + a)2.
Related category
PLANE CURVES
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