Harmonographs

1 · John Cook · Oct. 8, 2019, 6:18 p.m.
In the previous post, I said that Lissajous curves are the result of plotting a curve whose x and y coordinates come from (undamped) harmonic oscillators. If we add a little bit of dampening, multiplying our cosine terms by negative exponentials, the resulting curve is called a harmonograph. Here’s a bit of Mathematica code to […]...