This is a prototype of JavaSketchpad, a World-Wide-Web component of The Geometer's Sketchpad. Copyright ©1990-1998 by Key Curriculum Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Portions of this work were funded by the National Science Foundation (awards DMI 9561674 & 9623018).

Circumcenter  Centriod  Incenter
 all four points together
Angle bisector instructions     Perpendicular bisector instructions
Median instructions    Altitude instructions
Period 3     Period 4     Period 5

The orthocenter is the intersection of the altitudes of a triangle.
To construct an altitude refer to your textbook, bottom of  page 56.
Remember, you may have to lengthen the segment in order to construct the first arc.


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