About ‘Osculating Circles’ by Elke Stangl (elkement)
The osculating circle to a curve matches its slope and its curvature. For an ellipse, you can construct it exactly.
I let a hypothetical particle move on a meandering path. I zoom in on one squiggle - which I happen to match one half of an ellipse (yellow) exactly.
Turning the ellipse so that it lies flat in the drawing…
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