In geometry, the director circle of an ellipse or hyperbola (also called the orthoptic circle or Fermat–Apollonius circle) is a circle consisting of all points where two perpendicular tangent lines to the ellipse or hyperbola cross each other. == Properties == The director circle of an ellipse circumscribes the minimum bounding box of the ellipse.
In geometry, the director circle of an ellipse or hyperbola (also called the orthoptic circle or Fermat–Apollonius circle) is a circle consisting of all points where two perpendicular tangent lines to the ellipse or hyperbola cross each other. == Properties == The director circle of an ellipse circumscribes the minimum bounding box of the ellipse.
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