Generating Conic Sections with Circles | Part 2. The Parabola

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Let C be a circle centered at F and let L denote a line on the same plane as C which doesn't intersect C. Then construct a variable circle tangent to L and C and denote its center as X. A collection of all such possible centers X is a parabola.
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