Dinosaur chasing slower but more agile prey

A fast velociraptor V chases a slow, but agile, thescelosaurus T. The circles denote the sharpest turns that each dinosaur can make.

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This paper won the Mathematical Association of America Award for the 1997 Mathematical Contest in Modeling:

Ahn, Charlene S., Edward Boas, and Benjamin Rahn. (1997) "The Geometry and the Game Theory of Chases." The UMAP Journal. 18.3: 225-242.

Abstract
(We investigate the hunting and fleeing strategies of a fast predator and its agile prey in a chase of finite time.)