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The process of drawing the altitude from a vertex to the foot is known as dropping the altitude at that vertex. It is a special case of orthogonal projection. Altitudes can be used in the computation of the area of a triangle: one-half of the product of an altitude's length and its base's length (symbol b) equals the triangle's area: A = h b /2 ...
(In a right triangle two of these are merged into the same square, so there are only two distinct inscribed squares.) However, an obtuse triangle has only one inscribed square, one of whose sides coincides with part of the longest side of the triangle. [2]: p. 115 All triangles in which the Euler line is parallel to one side are acute. [3]
The nine-point center N is one-fourth of the way along the Euler line from the centroid G to the orthocenter H: [6]: p.153 ¯ = ¯. Let ω be the nine-point circle of the diagonal triangle of a cyclic quadrilateral. The point of intersection of the bimedians of the cyclic quadrilateral belongs to the nine-point circle.
The Nagel point is the isotomic conjugate of the Gergonne point.The Nagel point, the centroid, and the incenter are collinear on a line called the Nagel line.The incenter is the Nagel point of the medial triangle; [2] [3] equivalently, the Nagel point is the incenter of the anticomplementary triangle.
The extended base of a triangle (a particular case of an extended side) is the line that contains the base. When the triangle is obtuse and the base is chosen to be one of the sides adjacent to the obtuse angle, then the altitude dropped perpendicularly from the apex to the base intersects the extended base outside of the triangle.
The heptagonal triangle's orthic triangle, with vertices at the feet of the altitudes, is similar to the heptagonal triangle, with similarity ratio 1:2. The heptagonal triangle is the only obtuse triangle that is similar to its orthic triangle (the equilateral triangle being the only acute one). [2]: pp. 12–13
In geometry, the Euler line, named after Leonhard Euler (/ ˈ ɔɪ l ər /), is a line determined from any triangle that is not equilateral.It is a central line of the triangle, and it passes through several important points determined from the triangle, including the orthocenter, the circumcenter, the centroid, the Exeter point and the center of the nine-point circle of the triangle.
The triangle's nine-point circle has half the diameter of the circumcircle. In any given triangle, the circumcenter is always collinear with the centroid and orthocenter. The line that passes through all of them is known as the Euler line. The isogonal conjugate of the circumcenter is the orthocenter.