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Johnson Triangle


JohnsonTriangle

The Johnson triangle DeltaJ_AJ_BJ_C, a term coined here for the first time, is the triangle formed by the centers of the Johnson circles.

It has trilinear vertex matrix

 [-abcS_A:c(S^2+S_AS_C):b(S^2+S_AS_B); c(S^2+S_BS_C):-abcS_B:a(S^2+S_AS_B); b(S^2+S_BS_C):a(S^2+S_AS_C):-abcS_C],

where S, S_A, S_B, and S_C is Conway triangle notation.

The Johnson triangle circumcircle is congruent to the Johnson circles and therefore also to the circumcircle of the reference triangle.

JohnsonTrianglePerspector

The Johnson triangle is congruent to the reference triangle, with which it is also in perspective with perspector at nine-point center. Because the Johnson triangle is congruent to the reference triangle, the points O, J_A, J_B, and J_C form an orthocentric system. Furthermore, the Johnson triangle is homothetic to the reference triangle and has a homothetic center at the nine-point center of the reference triangle (midway between O and H on their common Euler line).

The nine-point center is also the midpoint of the lines AJ_A, BJ_B, and CJ_C. In fact, more generally, the nine-point center lies at the center of a line between any defined point P in the reference triangle and its congruent point J_P in the Johnson triangle. (But note that this midpoint should not be confused with the Johnson midpoint).

JohnsonTriangleHomothetic

The radical lines through pairs of intersecting Johnson circles orthogonally bisect the sides of the Johnson triangle at its medians. Consequently, the medial triangle of the Johnson triangle is homothetic to the reference triangle and its homothetic center is the orthocenter of the reference triangle.

In addition to the vertices J_A, J_B, and J_C being the reflections of O in the sidelines BC, CA, and AB of DeltaABC, DeltaJ_AJ_BJ_C is also the Euler triangle of the anticomplementary triangle DeltaJ_AJ_BJ_C is DeltaABC rotated by 180 degrees around X_5, so DeltaABC and DeltaJ_AJ_BJ_C share the same nine-point circle.


See also

Johnson Circles, Johnson Circumconic, Johnson's Theorem, Johnson Triangle Circumcircle, Orthocentric System

Portions of this entry contributed by Frank Jackson

Portions of this entry contributed by Peter Moses

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Jackson, Frank; Moses, Peter; and Weisstein, Eric W. "Johnson Triangle." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/JohnsonTriangle.html

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