The dual can be visualized as a locus in the plane in the form of the polar reciprocal. This is defined with reference to a fixed conic Q as the locus of the poles of the tangent lines of the curve C. The conic Q is nearly always taken to be a circle and this case the polar reciprocal is the inverse of the pedal of C.
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