A budget of inversions
In the real Euclidean plane, if the a) sum, b) difference, c) quotient or d) product of the distances from two fixed points is a constant, the locus \(c\) is a) an ellipse, b) a hyperbola, c) a circle of Apollonius, or d) an oval of Cassini, respectively. The author first maps the curves \(c\) of these four types a)--d) by the (usual) inversion in a circle cutting \(c\) in two distinct points (thus being fixed points of the mapping). He presents the (well-known) equations and figures of the (algebraic) image curves. Finally he studies the inverses of lines not passing through the center \((0,0)\) of inversion while using the (unit) circle of inversion \(| x| + | y| = 1\) based on the ``city block metric.
- Elliptic and hyperbolic inversions
- An inversion invariant of a pair of circles
- On the extrema of some distance ratios
- A generalization of the spherical inversion
- Anallagmatic curves and inversion about the unit hyperbola
- On the Chinese checkers spherical inversions in three dimensional Chinese checkers space
- On inversions in central conics
- A geometrical construction of inverse points with respect to an ellipse
- Taxicab spherical inversions in taxicab space
- Inversions and Fractal Patterns in Alpha Plane
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