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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
(
x
2
+
xy
+
ax
-
b
2
) = (
b
2
-
x
2
)(
x
-
y
+
a
)
2
.
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