Great Curves! | Clipmarks


	Great Curves!
JohnWaterman
12-19-2007 3:51 AM
2637 views
tags:
mathematics, curves
JohnWaterman says:
Famous Curves Index
3 Comments |
Add a Comment
12-20-2007 2:32 PM
tidbit2
how about pamela anderson or jodi marsh
12-20-2007 3:10 PM
boozich
or the sophia curve
http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/463/PC/SuperStock_463-7371.jpg
12-21-2007 6:46 AM
JohnWaterman
Certainly a classic.
Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up
Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from December 19, 2007
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/84a87ba2-02d4-48bd-b46f-2d4be3bde017/FC53E747-3376-4162-ADC3-93A5EE8983E6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html" href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><TR valign="top"><TD width="180"><A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Astroid.html">Astroid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Bicorn.html">Bicorn</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cardioid.html">Cardioid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cartesian.html">Cartesian Oval</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cassinian.html">Cassinian Ovals</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Catenary.html">Catenary</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cayleys.html">Cayley's Sextic</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Circle.html">Circle</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cissoid.html">Cissoid of Diocles</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cochleoid.html">Cochleoid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Conchoid.html">Conchoid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Conchoidsl.html">Conchoid of de Sluze</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cycloid.html">Cycloid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Devils.html">Devil's Curve</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Double.html">Double Folium</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Durers.html">Dürer's Shell Curves</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Eight.html">Eight Curve</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Ellipse.html">Ellipse</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Epicycloid.html">Epicycloid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Epitrochoid.html">Epitrochoid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Equiangular.html">Equiangular Spiral</A>
</TD><TD width="180"><A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Fermats.html">Fermat's Spiral</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Folium.html">Folium</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Foliumd.html">Folium of Descartes</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Freeths.html">Freeth's Nephroid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Frequency.html">Frequency Curve</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Hyperbola.html">Hyperbola</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Hyperbolic.html">Hyperbolic Spiral</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Hypocycloid.html">Hypocycloid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Hypotrochoid.html">Hypotrochoid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Involute.html">Involute of a Circle</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Kampyle.html">Kampyle of Eudoxus</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Kappa.html">Kappa Curve</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Lame.html">Lamé Curves</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Lemniscate.html">Lemniscate of Bernoulli</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Limacon.html">Limacon of Pascal</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Lissajous.html">Lissajous Curves</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Lituus.html">Lituus</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Neiles.html">Neile's Parabola</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Nephroid.html">Nephroid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Newtons.html">Newton's Parabolas</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Parabola.html">Parabola</A>
</TD><TD><A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Pearls.html">Pearls of de Sluze</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Pearshaped.html">Pear-shaped Quartic</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Plateau.html">Plateau Curves</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Pursuit.html">Pursuit Curve</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Quadratrix.html">Quadratrix of Hippias</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Rhodonea.html">Rhodonea Curves</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Right.html">Right Strophoid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Serpentine.html">Serpentine</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Sinusoidal.html">Sinusoidal Spirals</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Spiral.html">Spiral of Archimedes</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Spiric.html">Spiric Sections</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Straight.html">Straight Line</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Talbots.html">Talbot's Curve</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Tractrix.html">Tractrix</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Tricuspoid.html">Tricuspoid</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Trident.html">Trident of Newton</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Trifolium.html">Trifolium</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Trisectrix.html">Trisectrix of Maclaurin</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Tschirnhaus.html">Tschirnhaus' Cubic</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Watts.html">Watt's Curve</A>
<A href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Witch.html">Witch of Agnesi</A>
</TD></TR></table></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Astroid.html" href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Astroid.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Astroid.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/img/646FF15B-ECF9-4FCF-89B1-F0A0EC41FE03" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Astroid.html"><I>x</I><SUP>2/3</SUP> + <I>y</I><SUP>2/3</SUP> = <I>a</I><SUP>2/3</SUP> </blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Bicorn.html" href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Bicorn.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Bicorn.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/img/E394FCFC-A6CE-4FA4-95B7-4F09DC408F8B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Bicorn.html"><I>y</I><SUP>2</SUP>(<I>a</I><SUP>2</SUP> - <I>x</I><SUP>2</SUP>) = (<I>x</I><SUP>2</SUP> + 2<I>ay</I> - <I>a</I>)<SUP>2</SUP></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cochleoid.html" href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cochleoid.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cochleoid.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/img/C6CC0B31-327C-4436-AE93-329A7781E2B6" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cochleoid.html"><I>r</I> = <I>a</I> sin(<IMG alt="theta" src="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/../Symbolgifs/theta.gif" />)/<IMG alt="theta" src="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/../Symbolgifs/theta.gif" /></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cycloid.html" href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cycloid.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cycloid.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/img/0044B584-0E7A-4616-9570-6BBE305B5110" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Trident.html" href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Trident.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Trident.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/img/0F009301-94B2-4DC8-B66E-1E1B0F35AAEE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Tschirnhaus.html" href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Tschirnhaus.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Tschirnhaus.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/img/BFBDE819-5011-4330-B77A-FA1BCC9FC89D" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FC53E747-3376-4162-ADC3-93A5EE8983E6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!
Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard
Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment
Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch
Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map
About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA
Search Options

Today's Top Clips
