Regarding the two dimensional figures we refer to as conic sections, those resulting from the sectioning of a three dimensional conical surface, the following offers a methodology of subsequent iteration to produce one of nature’s most enigmatic shapes. Let’s begin with a straight line perpendicular to a conics section’s axis of symmetry and passing through its focus. This defines the section’s Latus Rectum. (In the special case ellipse we call the Circle, the foci are coincident. As such, the orientation of it’s axis of symmetry is irrelavant and it’s Latus Rectum is it’s diameter.) On either side of the axis...
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