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Spirograph


Spirographs

A hypotrochoid generated by a fixed point on a circle rolling inside a fixed circle. The curves above correspond to values of a=0.1, 0.2, ..., 1.0.

SpirographTriangle

Additional attractive designs such as the one above can also be made by superposing individual spirographs.

The Season 1 episode "Counterfeit Reality" (2005) of the television crime drama NUMB3RS features spirographs when discussing Guilloché patterns.


See also

Epitrochoid, Guilloché Pattern, Harmonograph, Hypotrochoid, Maurer Rose, Spirolateral

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Spirograph." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Spirograph.html

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