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Apollonius Circle
Apollonius' circle. The locus of a point moving so that the ratio of its distances from two fixed points is fixed, is a circle.
If two circles
and
are fixed with radii
and
, then the circle of Apollonius of the two centers
with ratio
is the circle whose diameter
is the segment
that joins the two homothety centers
of the circles.