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Two-Antenna Interference

Peaks and nulls from two antennas trace a family of hyperbolas with the antennas as their shared foci.

Interference pattern of two antennas, with constructive and destructive hyperbolas and their asymptote lines, adjustable antenna spacing.

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Every point on one curve has the same difference of distances to the two antennas. Each curve has its own asymptote angle, sin θ = k/D, so unlike a spacetime diagram there is no single shared "X".