Poincaré Hyperbolic Disk

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The Poincaré disk is a model for hyperbolic geometry in which a line is represented as an arc of a circle whose ends are perpendicular to the disk's boundary. This Demonstration allows you to specify two endpoints and the level of recursion for viewing arcs on the hyperbolic disk.

Contributed by: Eric W. Weisstein (March 2011)
Based on a program by: Matthew Cook
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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