(x2 + y2)(y2 + x(x + b)) = 4axy2
r = -b cosθ + 4a cosθ sin2θ
Click below to see one of the Associated curves.
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|Caustic wrt horizontal rays||Caustic curve wrt another point|
There are three special forms of the folium, the simple folium, the double folium and the trifolium. These correspond to the cases
b = 4a, b = 0, b = a
respectively in the formula above.
The graph plotted above is the simple folium. There are separate entries for the double folium and the trifolium.
The simple folium is the pedal curve of the tricuspoid where the pedal point is one of the cusps.
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