These are some random notes on circumconics and inconics and duality.
We work exclusively in barycentrics. We use the following notation, some
of which is non-standard:

CP(U )is the circumconic with perspector U,
CC(U) is the circumconic with centre U.
IP(U )is the inconic with perspector U,
IC(U) is the inconic with centre U.
G(U) is the G-Ceva conjugate of U.
C(U) is the complement of U.
A(U) is the anticomplement of U.
TU) is the isotomic conjugate of U.
[f(a,b,c)] is the point with barycentrics f(a,b,c):f(b,c,a):f(c,a,b).

Thus,
G([f(a,b,c)]) = [f(a,b,c).(f(b,c,a)+f(b,c,a)-f(a,b,c))].
C([f(a,b,c)]) = [f(b,c,a)+f(b,c,a)].
A([f(a,b,c)]) = [f(b,c,a)+f(b,c,a)-f(a,b,c)].
T([f(a,b,c)]) = [1/f(a,b,c)].

We have some familiar results:
If a circumconic has perspector U, then it has centre G(U).
If a circumconic has centre U, then it has perspector G(U).
If a inconic has perspector U, then it has centre C(T(U)).
If a inconic has centre U, then it has perspector T(A(U)).

Suppose that U = u:v:w is a point, then
ux+vy+wz = 0 is the dual of U.
x/u+y/v+z/w = 0 is the tripolar of U.
Suppose that L : fx+gy+hz = 0 is a line, then
f:g:h is the dual of L.
1/f:1/g:1/h is the tripole of L.

The duals of the points of a conic C envelop a conic - the dual C' of C.
The duals of the tangents to a conic D constitute the dual D' of D. Then
for any conic E, E'' = E.

If the circumconic C has perspector U, then its dual C' is the inconic with
perspector T(U) and vice versa.

If U = u:v:w, then CP(U) has equation u/x+v/y+w/z = 0, so that CP(U) is
the isotomic conjugate ot the dual of U. Combining this with earlier results,
we see that the dual of IP(V) is the isotomic conjugate of the tripolar of V.

We use Clark Kimberling's notation for triangle centres. Thus, the incentre
is X(1), the centroid is X(2), and so on.

Circumconic				Dual inconic
Name	Centre	Perspector	Meets Steiner	Name	Centre	Perspector	Comment
Steiner ellipse	X(2)	X(2)		Steiner inellipse	X(2)	X(2)
Circumcircle	X(3)	X(6)	X(99)		X(141)	X(76)
Feuerbach hyperbola	X(11)	X(650)
Kiepert hyperbola	X(115)	X(523)	X(671)	Kiepert parabola	X(523)	X(99)	focus X(110)
Jerabeck hyperbola	X(125)	X(647)	X(290)

Inconic				Dual circumconic
Name	Centre	Perspector	Comment	Name	Centre	Perspector	Meets Steiner
Incircle	X(1)	X(7)				X(8)	X(190)
Steiner inellipse	X(2)	X(2)		Steiner ellipse	X(2)	X(2)
Mabeath inconic	X(5)	X(264)	foci X(3),X(4)		X(6)	X(3)	X(648)
Orthic ellipse	X(6)	X(4)				X(69)	X(99)
Mandart ellipse	X(9)	X(8)				X(7)	X(664)
Brocard ellipse	X(39)	X(6)				X(76)	X(670)
Simmons inconic2	X(395)	X(14)	foci X(14),X(16)			X(299)	X(99)
Simmons inconic1	X(396)	X(13)	foci X(13),X(15)			X(298)	X(99)
Yff parabola	X(514)	X(190)	focus X(101)	X(2),X(7) conic	X(1086)	X(514)	X(903)
Kiepert parabola	X(523)	X(99)	focus X(110)	Kiepert hyperbola	X(115)	X(523)	X(671)
Lemoine ellipse	X(597)	X(598)	foci X(2),X(6)			X(599)	X(99)

a remarkable coincidence

Of the eleven named inconics, five have duals through X(99).
By duality, the inconics have a common tangent L, the dual of X(99).
This is the line through X(115) and X(125). The line is the tripolar of X(523).

We may add to the list the dual of the circumcircle as this contains X(99).

A result going back to Newton shows that the inconics touching L lie on
a line L* known as the Newton line for L. In general, if L has equation
fx+gy+hz = 0, then L* has equation Fx+Gy+Hz = 0, where [F] = A(T([f])).

Here the situation is particularly simple. When [f] is on the Steiner ellipse,
so T([f]) is at infinity, and then [F] = T([f]). Here, [f] = X(99), so the Newton
line is the tripolar of X(99). This is the line though X(2) and X(6). This comes
directly from the fact that the list includes the Steiner inellipse and the K ellipse.

We can also locate the perspectors of these inconics. Since the dual circumconics
pass through X(99), the perspectors of the circumconics must lie on the tripolar
of X(99). The perspectors of the inconics are the isotomic conjugates of these
must lie on the isotomic conjugate of this tripolar. Thus the perspectors lie on
the circumconic with perspector X(523], the Kiepert hyperbola.

The line L* has 61 named centres, so we could extend our list of inconics which
touch L.

The family of inconics includes one parabola P. This must have centre at infinity
and perspector on the Steiner ellipse. Thus, P has centre X(524) and perspector
X(671).

It must also contain the inconic with L as asymptote. By other results, this has as
its centre X(1648), the tripolar centroid of X(523). We could also see this as the
intersection of L and L*. The list ETC shows that X(1641) - the tripolar centroid
of X(99) - lies on L*, so is the centre of one of the inconics.

Note that the mid-point of X(1641) and X(1648) is X(2).

L touches the Steiner inellipse at X(115), the K ellipse at X(125).

Concentric circumconics and inconics.

Suppose that U = u:v:v and V are isotomic conjugates, so that V =vw,wu,uv.
The inconics with perspectors U, V have centres C(V), C(U) respectively.

Let G be the centroid of ΔABC. Then C(U),C(V) are G-Ceva conjugate.
The mid-point of C(U)C(V) is M = [(u²+vw+2uv+2uw)(v+w)]
The line GM has equation fx+gy+hz = 0, where f:g:h = [(v-w)(u²-vw)].

The circumconics with centres C(V),C(U) have perspectors C(U),C(V),
so meet at P = [(v+w)/(v-w)], as well as at A,B,C.

The inconics with centres C(V),C(U) have perspectors U,V,
so meet at Q = [u(v-w)²], and at three other points as well.

Maple calculation verifies that P and Q lie on GM.

examples

U = X(7), V = X(8).
C(U) = X(9), C(V) = X(1).
M = X(1001), P = X(100), Q = X(11).
The inconics are the Incircle and the Mandart ellipse.

U = X(69), V = X(4).
C(U) = X(6), C(V) = X(3).
M = X(182), P = X(110), Q = X(125).
The circumconics are the Circumcircle and the dual of the Macbeath inconic.
The second inconic is the Orthic ellipse.

In fact, we can say more about the above inconics.
They contain the points [u(v²-w²)²] and [u³(v²-w²)²].
These are the contact points with the fourth common tangent, which is the
tripolar of [u(v²-w²)] (by duality).