Loxodrome Art
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The parametric equation of a loxodrome on the unit sphere can be expressed as . This family of curves is parametrized by
and
. In this Demonstration, you can continuously vary the parameter
and see
curves obtained by using values of the parameter
spaced evenly from
to
.
Contributed by: Erik Mahieu (April 2012)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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