Gallery of curves

This is a gallery of curves used in mathematics, by Wikipedia page. See also list of curves.

Algebraic curves

Rational curves

Degree 1

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  Line

Degree 2

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  Circle
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  Ellipse
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  Parabola
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  Hyperbola

Degree 3

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  Cubic curve
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  Cubic polynomial
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  Folium of Descartes
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  Cissoid of Diocles
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  Conchoid of de Sluze
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  Cubic with double point
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  Strophoid
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  Semicubical parabola
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  Serpentine curve
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  Trident curve
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  Trisectrix of Maclaurin
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  Tschirnhausen cubic
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  Witch of Agnesi

Degree 4

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  Ampersand curve
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  Bean curve
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  Bicorn
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  Transformed bicorn
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  Bicuspid curve
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  Bow curve
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  Bullet-nose curve
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  Cruciform curve
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  Deltoid curve
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  Devil's curve
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  Hippopede
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  Kampyle of Eudoxus
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  Kappa curve
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  Lemniscate of Booth
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  Lemniscate of Gerono
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  Lemniscate of Bernoulli
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  Limaçon
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  Cardioid
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  Limaçon trisectrix
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  Quadrifolium (2-rose)
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  Spiric sections
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  Squircle
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  Trifolium Curve

Degree 5

Degree 6

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  Astroid
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  Atriphtaloid
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  Nephroid
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  Quadrifolium

Families of variable degree

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  Epicycloid
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  Epispiral
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  Epitrochoid
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  Hypocycloid
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  Lissajous curve
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  Poinsot's spirals
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  Rose curve

Curves of genus one

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  Bicuspid curve
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  Cassini oval
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  Cubic curve
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  Elliptic curve
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  Watt's curve

Curves with genus greater than one

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  Butterfly curve (algebraic)
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  Elkies trinomial curves
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  Hyperelliptic curve
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  Klein quartic
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  Classical modular curve

Curve families with variable genus

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  Erdős lemniscate
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  Hurwitz surface
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  Mandelbrot curve
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  Polynomial lemniscate
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  Sinusoidal spiral
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  Superellipse

Transcendental curves

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  Bowditch curve
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  Brachistochrone
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  Butterfly curve (transcendental)
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  Catenary
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  Clélies
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  Cochleoid
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  Cycloid
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  Horopter
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  Isochrone
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  Pursuit curve
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  Rhumb line
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  Syntractrix
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  Tractrix
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  Trochoid

Spirals

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  Archimedean spiral
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  Cornu spiral
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  Fermat's spiral
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  Hyperbolic spiral
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  Lituus
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  Logarithmic spiral

Piecewise constructions

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  Maurer rose
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  Reuleaux triangle

Fractal curves

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  Blancmange curve
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  De Rham curve
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  Dragon curve
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  Koch curve
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  Lévy C curve
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  Peano curve
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  Sierpiński curve

External links

• Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves