Hypocycloid
Curve traced by a point on a circle rolling within another circle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In geometry, a hypocycloid is a special plane curve generated by the trace of a fixed point on a small circle that rolls within a larger circle. As the radius of the larger circle is increased, the hypocycloid becomes more like the cycloid created by rolling a circle on a line.
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