Interactive · 11 questions
Beautiful picture
Why is this a beautiful picture?
I wonder how special this is. What if I try this with another triangle...
Oops, I missed! But maybe I could...

Look at this shift!
Yes, given two sides, it's always possible to move a circle so that it is tangent to the lines that those two sides form.
By the way, what do we know about the center of that circle now?
Aha! That means that lies on the bisector of angle:
Let's get back to the mission of making the circle tangent to all three sides of the triangle.
Circle 1:

This circle is almost pretty nice
What could we do to the circle?
We then get this:

Now this is pretty satisfying to look at
Hey, does it look like some of these points are on a line? Check off the 3 points which are collinear.

Now this is some serious beauty.
Wonderful! What line is that?
Perhaps we could actually do this procedure on any triangle:
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Start with a circle
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Move it until it is tangent to two sides
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Adjust its size, keeping it tangent to lines and (which means: moving its center along the angle bisector of ), until it is tangent to too.
Will this actually work on any triangle?
And now, the grand finale!
We know that inscribing circles has some relation to...

Nice
Then, what happens when we take two angle bisectors, like above?
What, then, do we know about this intersection point ? Mark all that apply.

The grand finale!
Beautiful, indeed! And, since has the same distance to all three sides of the triangle, when we draw the circle centered at with that radius, we just touch each side at a point of tangency, like this:
No wonder the Greeks were fascinated. We call this special point the incenter of triangle , and we call the corresponding circle the incircle. It's easy to construct the incenter: just draw angle bisectors, and mark their intersection point.
We're all done!