Rose
From JSXGraph Wiki
A rose or rhodonea curve is a sinusoid plotted in polar coordinates. Up to similarity, these curves can all be expressed by a polar equation of the form
If k is an integer, the curve will be rose shaped with
- 2k petals if k is even, and
- k petals if k is odd.
When k is even, the entire graph of the rose will be traced out exactly once when the value of θ changes from 0 to 2π. When k is odd, this will happen on the interval between 0 and π. (More generally, this will happen on any interval of length 2π for k even, and π for k odd.)
The quadrifolium is a type of rose curve with n=2. It has polar equation:
with corresponding algebraic equation
The JavaScript code to produce this picture
<jsxgraph width="500" height="500" box="box2">
var b2 = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('box2', {axis:true,originX: 250, originY: 250, unitX: 25, unitY: 25});
var f = b2.createElement('slider', [[1,8],[6,8],[0,4,8]]);
var len = b2.createElement('slider', [[1,7],[6,7],[0,2,8]],{snapWidth:1,name:'len'});
var k = b2.createElement('slider', [[1,6],[6,6],[0,2,12]],{snapWidth:0.2,name:'k'});
var c = b2.createElement('curve', [function(phi){return f.Value()*Math.cos(k.Value()*phi); }, [0, 0],0, function(){return len.Value()*Math.PI;}],
{curveType:'polar', strokewidth:2});
</jsxgraph>
