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Cycloids

This animation pictures the graphical generation of epicycloids resulting from the rotation of a circle rolling outside a base circle and of hypocycloids when the rolling circle is located inside. The number of cusps can be adjusted by means of a slider c.

This is a Java Applet created using GeoGebra from www.geogebra.org - it looks like you don't have Java installed, please go to www.java.com

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