Try to see this as a 3-dimensional picture.
The black ellipse is an object, depicted in the z=1 plane
(the 'object plane').
The white curve is its slope transform (Legendre transform),
depicted in the y=-1 plane (the 'legendre plane').
The red point runs along the x-axis (in the object plane),
its value indicated in yellow;
it indexes a point on the black ellipse, to which a tangent is drawn
in white. The slope of the tangent is in green, and the value of its
Legendre transform is the intercept of the y-axis (in the object plane),
in red.
The slope is then used as an index along the x-axis (in the legendre plane)
for a the legendre transform in the z-direction. Its slope is
minus the x-index (in yellow).
Created with Cinderella
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