MathLapse – Flower Drawing Machine
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MathLapse – Flower Drawing Machine
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The video shows the construction of a hypotrochoid.
It is the trace of a moving point, which is connected to a circle. This circle is rolling around the inside of a fixed bigger circle. Here, the ratio of the radii of the two circles is 4/9. Therefore, the resulting hypotrochoid has 9 leaves.