Limaçon as a Roulette - 1
- Author:
- Irina Boyadzhiev
In geometry, a Limaçon, also known as a Limaçon of Pascal, is defined as the roulette formed when a circle rolls around the outside of a circle of equal radius.
The red circle is the fixed circle. The circle can be rolled around by moving slider . If the common radius of the circles is , point is defined as a point on a distance from. We can change the position of point by moving the slider .
As the circle rolls around , the point will draw the roulette of the circle - the Limaçon.
- Move to values less than , equal to or greater than to see the change in the Limaçon.