curves and spirals

October 1, 2003 5:21 AM

A Visual Dictionary of Famous Plane Curves
posted by wobh (6 comments total)

Another nice resource is the University of Minnesota's The Geometry Center. Unfortunately, it's http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/closed.html
posted by wobh at 5:25 AM on October 1, 2003

there's the most amazing picture of a cauliflower at http://xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/EquiangularSpiral_dir/equiangularSpiral.html (scroll to bottom of page).
posted by andrew cooke at 6:44 AM on October 1, 2003

I have a sudden urge to go buy a Spirograph.

...and a cauliflower.
posted by Robot Johnny at 8:20 AM on October 1, 2003

Great link.. very nice real-world example images
posted by cmicali at 8:36 AM on October 1, 2003

Wonderful, wobh; thanks! Interesting background, by the way, on the Witch of Agnesi.
posted by taz at 11:50 AM on October 1, 2003

OMG! I had no idea Xah Lee actually did anything useful with his time when he's not ranting/trolling on Lisp-related newsgroups. Good for him. This is a really nice site.
posted by electro at 1:07 PM on October 1, 2003