Hypocycloids

1 · John Cook · April 25, 2020, 10 p.m.
In the previous postprevious post, I showed how to plot “envelopes of epicycloids.” This post will consider a variation on the same theme, hypocycloids. For the epicycloid post, we imagined two ants crawling around a circle at different speeds, and drawing lines between their positions at various times. Although the ants were traveling at different […]...