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Ellipses

Here you see concentric circles and a point P on the outer circle. Segment OP meets the inner circle in a point which is the vertex opposite P in a rectangle. The loci of the other two vertices are ellipses.

During animation, drag the red points.

For more, see GEOMETRY IN ACTION, Chapter 4, Project 4.