Lemniscate Plotting Device

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The center of a bar moves along a lemniscate if its two ends are moved around two equal circles in opposite directions.

Contributed by: Sándor Kabai (December 2007)
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In certain mechanical equipment this phenomenon is the basis of linkages that use the nearly straight central part of the lemniscate.



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