Friday, February 13, 2015

Heart Curve: Happy Valentines Day!

As the world enters Valentine's Day (February 14, 2014), you can mathematically express your love by drawing the heart curve, which comes from the family of cardiod curves.  

What is graphed is one of the heart curves:

x = 16*(sin(t))^3
y = 13*cos(t)-5*cos(2*t)-2*cos(3*t)-cos(4*t)
-2*π ≤ t ≤ 2*π



A Heart Curve on HP Prime

You can get a selection of heart curves from this website:  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HeartCurve.html 


Happy Valentines Day!

Eddie

This blog is property of Edward Shore.  2015

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