Diagram

Four Orthocenters: The Half-Turn Configuration

A cyclic quadrilateral and the four orthocenters paired by one center of symmetry

The configuration behind the half-turn that sends the vertices of a cyclic quadrilateral to the orthocenters of the four complementary triangles.

Methods Vectors · Central symmetry

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A cyclic quadrilateral ABCD and the quadrilateral PQRS formed by the orthocenters of BCD, CDA, DAB, and ABC; the four segments AP, BQ, CR, and DS share the midpoint M.
Figure 1. The half-turn centered at M sends A, B, C, D to P, Q, R, S, respectively.

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Half-turn configuration
% Figure for a Classical Theorem Note
% Article: Four Orthocenters of a Cyclic Quadrilateral
% Site: Elementary Geometry
% Website: https://elementarygeometry.org/
% Drawing tool: tkz-euclide
% Output format: SVG
% Last verified: 2026-08-30
% Accent target: none
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% Editable source for public/diagrams/four-orthocenters-half-turn.svg.
% Prepared for the web edition of this note.
% The production site serves the committed SVG and does not compile TeX.
\documentclass[tikz,border=8pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tkz-euclide}

\definecolor{egNavy}{HTML}{17243D}
\definecolor{egGray}{HTML}{777671}
\definecolor{egRust}{HTML}{92513F}
\newcommand{\egUseStandardPlateAt}[1]{%
  \pgfresetboundingbox
  \path[use as bounding box]
    ([xshift=-102pt,yshift=-80pt]#1)
    rectangle
    ([xshift=102pt,yshift=80pt]#1);%
}
\newcommand{\egUseStandardPlate}{%
  \coordinate (egPlateCenter) at (current bounding box.center);%
  \egUseStandardPlateAt{egPlateCenter}%
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\tikzset{
  eg figure/.style={line cap=round,line join=round,every node/.append style={font=\normalsize,text=egNavy}},
  eg main/.style={draw=egNavy,line width=0.75pt},
  eg support/.style={draw=egGray,line width=0.52pt},
  eg support dashed/.style={draw=egGray,line width=0.52pt,dash pattern=on 3pt off 3pt},
  eg accent/.style={draw=egRust,line width=0.75pt},
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\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[eg figure,scale=1.0]
  \tkzDefPoint(0,0){O}
  \tkzDefPoint(2.3,0){U}

  % Rotate the original configuration within the standard horizontal plate.
  \tkzDefPointBy[rotation=center O angle 119](U)\tkzGetPoint{A}
  \tkzDefPointBy[rotation=center O angle 269](U)\tkzGetPoint{B}
  \tkzDefPointBy[rotation=center O angle 328](U)\tkzGetPoint{C}
  \tkzDefPointBy[rotation=center O angle 46](U)\tkzGetPoint{D}

  % Orthocenters of the four complementary triangles.
  \tkzDefTriangleCenter[ortho](B,C,D)\tkzGetPoint{P}
  \tkzDefTriangleCenter[ortho](C,D,A)\tkzGetPoint{Q}
  \tkzDefTriangleCenter[ortho](D,A,B)\tkzGetPoint{R}
  \tkzDefTriangleCenter[ortho](A,B,C)\tkzGetPoint{S}

  % The conclusion is checked from the independently constructed P.
  \tkzDefMidPoint(A,P)\tkzGetPoint{M}

  \tkzDrawCircle[eg support](O,U)
  \tkzDrawPolygon[eg support](A,B,C,D)
  \tkzDrawSegments[eg support dashed](A,P B,Q C,R D,S)
  \tkzDrawPolygon[eg main](P,Q,R,S)

  \tkzDrawPoints[color=egNavy,fill=egNavy,size=1.6](A,B,C,D,P,Q,R,S)
  \tkzDrawPoint[color=egNavy,fill=egNavy,size=1.6](M)

  \tkzLabelPoints[above](A)
  \tkzLabelPoints[below](B)
  \tkzLabelPoints[below right](C)
  \tkzLabelPoints[right, xshift=-1pt,yshift=5pt](D)
  \tkzLabelPoints[below](P)
  \tkzLabelPoints[above](Q)
  \tkzLabelPoints[above](R)
  \tkzLabelPoints[below left](S)
  \tkzLabelPoints[right,xshift=0pt,yshift=2pt](M)
  \egUseStandardPlate
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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