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Parametric Spiral Ball Animation with GeoGebra 5

November 6, 2014 Blog, Free Technology, GeoGebra, Journal, My Random Mathy Thoughts, Technology No comments
This is that neat thing I said I was working on in GeoGebra 5.  I wanted to come up with a mathematical model that described this metal mixing ball. After playing around with some formulas and testing out properties, I chose some constants for a, n, and d for the base image.  For each frame p, GeoGebra took a “screen capture” of the curve after all t units in the domain [-π, π] were mapped.  This is the formula I came up with:

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