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Famous Curves Index

Click on the name of a curve below to see its history and some of its associated curves.

Astroid Bicorn Cardioid Cartesian Oval Cassinian Ovals Catenary Cayley's Sextic Circle Cissoid of Diocles Cochleoid Conchoid Conchoid of de Sluze Cycloid Devil's Curve Double Folium Dürer's Shell Curves Eight Curve Ellipse Epicycloid Epitrochoid Equiangular Spiral

Fermat's Spiral Folium Folium of Descartes Freeth's Nephroid Frequency Curve Hyperbola Hyperbolic Spiral Hypocycloid Hypotrochoid Involute of a Circle Kampyle of Eudoxus Kappa Curve Lamé Curves Lemniscate of Bernoulli Limacon of Pascal Lissajous Curves Lituus Neile's Parabola Nephroid Newton's Parabolas Parabola

Pearls of de Sluze Pear-shaped Quartic Plateau Curves Pursuit Curve Quadratrix of Hippias Rhodonea Curves Right Strophoid Serpentine Sinusoidal Spirals Spiral of Archimedes Spiric Sections Straight Line Talbot's Curve Tractrix Tricuspoid Trident of Newton Trifolium Trisectrix of Maclaurin Tschirnhaus' Cubic Watt's Curve Witch of Agnesi