3DXM Plane Curve Gallery

Ancient Curves


Circle with Involutes

Conics

Parabola

Four Ellipse Constructions

Hyperbolae with Inversion

Conchoid

Cissoid

Cubics and Elliptic Functions

Classical Curves

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Folium Of Descartes

Tractrix

Cassinian Oval

Lemniscate

Nephroid Of Freeth

Cycloidal Curves


Cycloid with "Moving Plane"

Cardioid and Limacon

Nephroid with "Moving Plane"

Epicycloids and Hypocycloids


Deltoid

Two Astroid Constructions

Hypotrochoid

Modern Curves


Sine and Approximations

Lissajous

Catenary with Inversion

Clothoid

Tacnodal Quartic

Spirals                                                                 Misc


Archimedean Spiral

Log Spiral

   


Convex Curves of Constant Width
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Curvature Function Curve

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