Figure8knot-rose-limacon-curve
The figure-eight knot of mathematical knot theory depicted in symmetric form. The curves were generated from the polar coordinates equation r=b+sin(aθ), which is a slight generalization of the Limaçon and Rose/rhodonea curves, using parameters a=(2/3) and b=2.
The same curve (with a different rotation about the origin) is generated by the following non-polar parametric equations:
Self-made graphic, generated from the following vector PostScript source-code:
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