Construction of Instatenous centre of rotation

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I saw this post about proving the ICAOR and this post proving the existence of it but I don't get the construction of ICAOR geometrically as shown in page-10 of this pdf.

This centre of rotation can be reconstructed if
(a) we know the directions of velocities of two points and these
directions are not parallel - it is where perpendicular lines
drawn from these points intersect;
(b) we know the velocities of two points, and the vectors are
parallel and perpendicular to the line connecting these
points - we find the intersection of the line connecting
the points and the line connecting the tips of velocity
vectors (see the figure)

I would appreciate answers explaining how the construction comes about from the definition.

Jaswanth Naga · Accepted Answer

It is quite similar to drawing perpendiculars to tangents of a circle in order to find its centre.
ICAOR is an axis about which the body can be considered to be rotating at a given instant. From a geometrical point of view, this definition refers to a straight line about which particles on the rigid body are performing circular motion, where planes of these circles are perpendicular to a line i.e axis of rotation (ICAOR in this case).
So, it is clear that this line is perpendicular to plane of velocities. Therefore by considering any two points on body whose velocities are known, we can obtain ICAOR by drawing perpendiculars to these velocities and joining them. A line passing through their intersection point and perpendicular to plane of motion gives us the ICAOR. 
For the case joining tips of vectors, attached is its proof:

Construction of Instatenous centre of rotation

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