Comments on: Famous Curves

Famous Curves

plep — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:59:41 -0800

Famous Curves. Safe for work.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:09:22 -0800

Look at the Spiric Sections on that one!

By: sciurus

sciurus — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:08:15 -0800

Man, the Trisectrix of Maclaurin does it for me every time.

By: m@

m@ — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:52:35 -0800

Move over SuicideGirls, the Witch of Agnesi has some hot peaks.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:32:14 -0800

What sort of "Famous Curves" website would neglect to give props to Pierre Bezier? I suppose the Peano curve isn't cool enough, either. The Harrack M- and Hilbert curves may as well be wallflowers. Not that I'm some big mathematician or anything...

By: fionab

fionab — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:34:08 -0800

While the Lamé Curves are kind of lame, the Devil's Curve is actually pretty hot.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:35:43 -0800

Approximate Level of Fame: Greg Maddux's sinker Deserved Level Of Fame: Deadman's Curve

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:08:17 -0800

Right Strophoid sounds like one of those little towns in the English countryside where they have all sorts of strange traditional customs like shin kicking and horn dancing.

By: philfromhavelock

philfromhavelock — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:11:41 -0800

Great stuff, plep. You cleared something up for me. I met an older gentleman at school. Retired, friendly gent, well into hs eighties, would come to the library five, six days per week. Told me he studied geometry text books. The only math I've studied after high school has been statistics. I took the story at face value but his story makes more sense to me now, looking at these links. Memories of spirograph. ...in the jungle, welcome to the jungle, feel my, my, my [xxy + aby - aax = 0, ab > 0], I wanna hear... That "shin kicking trivia" page caught my eye. >Modern shin kicking is a somewhat cushier sport: opponents are allowed to stuff straw down their trousers to cushion the blows.

By: wobh

wobh — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:51:10 -0800

Thank you plep. I can't even tell you how proud this makes me.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:31:36 -0800

Thanks, plep, for this and all your awesome links!