Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University
of Wisconsin - Green Bay
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A hypocycloid is the curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle as it rolls around the inner circumference of another circle. In this construction it's the envelope of chords across a circle, where the endpoints move but one moves faster than the other.
Number of lobes:
Number of chords per lobe:
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