Showing posts with label Polar Coordinates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polar Coordinates. Show all posts

Sunday, May 3, 2015

452: Rose Petals

Go to this page at Desmos, and hit play. Explain what you see and why it is behaving that way.

There is obvious symmetry in the figure at each value of a but should we be defining something new to describe the sequence of images? A dynamic symmetry, of sorts?
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Friday, July 25, 2014

197: Polar Figures 6

Can you recreate these figures? Note: Unlike the previous figures, these are all "incomplete" so you will have to do two things ... (a) figure out the form of the full figure (how many pedals, etc.) and (b) restrict the domain appropriately.  In Desmos, domain restriction is done this way:





Here we go ....








Thursday, July 24, 2014

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

194: Polar Figures 3

Can you recreate these figures?

Single function.

In Desmos or Plot.ly, Create this Family of functions.




Monday, July 21, 2014

193: Polar Figures 2

Can you recreate these figures?




This last one is a piece-wise function ...