Given a triangle , determine the locus of the centers of the equilateral triangles satisfying the condition that each of the lines passes through (all indices are reduced modulo 3).
Solution
From any point on draw lines and , where lies on and lies on . The points are collinear, and the triangle is an equilateral triangle satisfying the conditions in the statement.

Let be the midpoint of the minor arc of the circle , and notice that the triangle is equilateral, since the are the centers of the inner Napoleon triangles associated with the triangle . The center of the triangle is the intersection of and , which must intersect at . Since the locus of includes the three points , it turns out that the locus of is the circle .
Similarly, another circle is obtained by starting with the inner Napoleon triangles. The required locus is a pair of circles.
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