Here is a link to the Wikipedia page on Dandelin spheres, giving us the “modern” proof of the equivalence between the definition of conic sections as regions of intersection of planes and cones, with the standard definition in terms of distance to foci. The links on the Wikipedia page provide further explanations and nice graphics illustrating the argument.
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