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CURVE WITH SINUSOIDAL RADIUS

Curve studied by L. Bieberbach in 1932.

The curves studied on this page are the curves the radius of curvature of which is a sinusoidal function of the curvilinear abscissa.
 
Intrinsic equation 1.

Intrinsic equation 2 when 0  < 1: 
Cartesian parametrization:  with ; complex parametrization: .

Intrinsic equation 2 when  = 1: 
Cartesian parametrization: with ; complex parametrization: .

Intrinsic equation 2 when  > 1: .
Cartesian parametrization:  with ; complex parametrization: .
Transcendental curve.


 
Evolution of a portion of a curve between two points with infinite curvature, when lambda is between 0 and 1.

curve when lambda = 1

curve when n =1 (i.e. lambda = sqrt(2))

curve when n =3/2 (i.e. lambda = sqrt(13/9))

curve when n =2 (i.e. lambda = sqrt(5))

curve when n =3 (i.e. lambda = sqrt(10))


 
 
If the value of n and lambda are made independent from one another in , we get aesthetically pleasing curves reminding in some cases the hypotrochoids.

If n is rational, they are Goursat curves of order the numerator of n.
Opposite, n = 5/7, and the values of lambda increase from 1.01.


 
If, now, we consider that the amplitude of the sinusoid varies, we can study the family curves with intrinsic equation 1 ,  that are parametrized by 
Opposite, an animation with k ranging from 0 to 3, with a stop for k =1 which corresponds the case =0 above.

The curves the curvature of which varies as a sinusoidal function of the curvilinear abscissa are the meander curves.

Other curves defined by their intrinsic equation: the clothoid, the curve of constant gyration, the syntractrix curve.

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