Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves
Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves




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Special Plane Curves



Ancient curves



Conic Sections

Parabola

Hyperbola

Ellipse





Cissoid of Diocles

Conchoid of Nicomedes

Quadratrix Of Hippias







Spirals



Archimedean Spiral

Equiangular Spiral

Lituus

Cornu Spiral







Cyclodal Curves



Epitrochoid

Hypotrochoid








Epicycloid and Hypocycloid


Rose Curve

Astroid

Deltoid

Nephroid

Cardioid





Trochoid

Cycloid







Era of Analytic Geometry



Cassinian Oval

Cross Curve

Folium of Descartes

Piriform

Semicubic Parabola

Tractrix

Trisectrix

Trisectrix of Maclaurin

Lemniscate of Bernoulli

Lemniscate of Gerono

Limacon Of Pascal

Witch of Agnesi

Sine Curve

Catenary

Bezier Curve





Methods of Generating New Curves


Caustics
Cissoid
Conchoid
Envelope
Evolute
Involute
Geometric Inversion
Orthoptic
Parallel Curve
Pedal Curve
Radial Curve
Roulette


Math of Curves


Geometry: Coordinate Systems for Plane Curves
Coordinate Transformation
Vectors
Naming and Classification of Curves



Cusp
Curvature






work in progress:


Line
Circle
Exponential Curve
Spiric Section
Hyperbolic Trig Functions
Lissajous
Polynomial


Misc Galleries


Geometry: Gallery of Surfaces
Math of Seashell Shapes
Spirals in Nature
Curlicues
Circle Inversion Gallery
Epitrochoid and Hypotrochoid Animation Gallery


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Reference


Plane Curves Books
Websites on Plane Curves
Curves and Their Properties by Robert Yates


