The Spieker center is the center of the Spieker circle ,
i.e., the incenter of the medial
triangle of a reference triangle . It is also the center of the excircles
radical circle .
It has equivalent triangle center functions
and is Kimberling center .
The Spieker center is also the centroid of the perimeter of the original triangle , as well as the cleavance
center (Honsberger 1995; illustrated above).
The Spieker center lies on the Nagel line , and is therefore collinear with the incenter ,
triangle centroid , and Nagel
point .
It lies on the Kiepert hyperbola .
The Spieker center, third Brocard point , and isotomic conjugate of the incenter
are also collinear .
Distances to other named triangle centers include
where
is the Clawson point , is the triangle centroid ,
is the incenter ,
is the Feuerbach
point ,
is the orthocenter , is the de Longchamps point ,
is the mittenpunkt ,
is the nine-point
center ,
is the Nagel point , is the triangle area ,
and
is the inradius .
See also Brocard Points ,
Cleavance Center ,
Cleaver ,
Incenter ,
Isotomic Conjugate ,
Nagel
Line ,
Perimeter ,
Spieker
Circle ,
Taylor Center ,
Triangle
Centroid
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