What happens if you took the basic parametric equations for plotting a circle –
x = radius * cos (q)
y = radius * sin (q)
– and add them to the equation for another circle, turning more than one circle in the time it takes to draw the first one?
You get something like this: Animated Virtual Harmonograph by Fergus Ray Murray
Check it out!
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Animated Virtual Harmonograph
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