Unit something else

[questionposter]

Are there formulas for different shapes on a plane other than a circle? What do they generate? Or is that how you make different waves?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Formulas for what about those shapes?

 

I mean, I can make formulas for the area of a circle, the side lengths of triangles, the interior angles of regular polygons, and so on. What formulas do you want, exactly?

[DrRocket]

Are there formulas for different shapes on a plane other than a circle? What do they generate? Or is that how you make different waves?

 

Google "cardoid"

[questionposter]

Formulas for what about those shapes?

 

I mean, I can make formulas for the area of a circle, the side lengths of triangles, the interior angles of regular polygons, and so on. What formulas do you want, exactly?

 

Well you know how you go around a unit circle and you get all these coordinates like sqrt(3)/2, 1/2 and etc? Well what about doing that with a trapezoid or equilateral triangle?

 

Google "cardoid"

 

That's cool, but that's not exactly what I'm talking about. I'm talking about substituting the circle in a unit circle for another shape.

Edited November 10, 2011 by questionposter