Study computes area ratios of line envelopes in triangles, indicating significant findings in geometry.
We compute the relative area of the envelope of all lines dividing the area of any triangle in ratio p/(1−p), and the relative area of its right perimeter analogue, the envelope of lines that divide the perimeter of an equilateral triangle in the same ratio, both for 0<p≤1/2. These expressions generalise their known particular values of −1/2+(3/4)ln(2) and 1/12 for p=1/2. For area p-envelopes, we provide a shorter second proof to a result by Russell Gordon on the incidence partitions of these envelopes. The perimeter p-envelopes are a new family of curves and so is the entire work related to them. Both area computations are based on ideas from calculus, inclusion-exclusion, affine transformations and dihedral groups.
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