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01Basic epicycle chain — circles stacked on circles, orbiting and plotting a point

Chain a few precomputed complex coefficients into circles of shrinking radius, tip to center — the endpoint traces petal-like symmetric figures across the plane: the minimal unit of Fourier resynthesis.

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Basic epicycle chain — circles stacked on circles, orbiting and plotting a point
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01 Basic epicycle chain — circles stacked on circles, orbiting and plotting a point — Measured area 36.176% · moving frames 23/23Original by GODRICH · SCSS and React ship in the zip · Fourier Epicycles, 9 Ways (No Library)

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Fourier Epicycles, 9 Ways (No Library) - preview of all 9 demosFourier Epicycles, 9 Ways (No Library)No library, no WebGL — put a path's points on the complex plane, run one sine/cosine integral, and circles stacked on ci See all demos in this post

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