On the cubic of Napoleon (Q1818900)

It is well-known that the Euler pencil of circular and anallagmatic cubics associated with a triangle ABC can be classified by their intersection point \(P\) with the Euler line of ABC (yielding, e.g., the Darboux cubic and the Neuberg cubic of that triangle). If \(P\) is the center of the Feuerbach circle, then the Napoleon cubic is obtained. The author derives a nice collection of properties and characterizations of this cubic, e.g. referring to its tangents, normals, intersections with the circumcircle, and further geometric tools (such as harmonicals, the property of triangles to be homologous to each other or so-called Torricelli triangles). The results are deduced by a useful combination of two techniques that are known by their elegance: trilinear homogeneous coordinates and complex numbers.