Hypotrochoid

Hypotrochoid

A hypotrochoid is a roulette traced by a point attached to a circle of radius "r" rolling around the inside of a fixed circle of radius "R", where the point is a distance "d" from the center of the interior circle.

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The red curve is a hypotrochoid drawn as the smaller black circle rolls around inside the larger blue circle (parameters are "R" = 5.0, "r" = 3, "d" = 5).

The parametric equations for a hypotrochoid are::x = (R - r)cos heta + dcosleft({R - r over r} heta ight):y = (R - r)sin heta - dsinleft({R - r over r} heta ight)

Special cases include the hypocycloid with "d" = "r" and the ellipse with "R" = 2"r".

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ellipse (drawn in red) may be expressed as a special case of the hypotrochoid, with R = 2r; here R = 10, r = 5, d = 1.]

The classic Spirograph toy traces out hypotrochoid and epitrochoid curves.

ee also

* Epitrochoid
* Cycloid
* Hypocycloid
* Epicycloid
* Spirograph

References

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External links

* [http://www.mekanizmalar.com/hypocycloid.html Flash Animation of Hypocycloid]
* [http://xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/Hypotrochoid_dir/hypotrochoid.html Hypotrochoid] from Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves, Xah Lee.


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