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Hm. Contrary to its pedal curve page, this mathworld page says the epicycloid does not give a rose. But hypo and epicycloids are such close cousins they should both or neither. I'll check carefully. 142.177.20.80 01:08, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The page is mistaken. Working in the complex plane and starting with and (epicycloids have , hypocycloids) we get
More work needed on contrapedal curve; mainly, what's done in higher spaces? While one could sensibly use the curvature vector, one could also use the perpendicular subspace...and somehow the latter is more appealing. Kwantus 18:53, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The orthotomic is simply the pedal magnified by a factor of 2. The current orthotomic article is just a stub, so the merge should be easy and it seems silly (not to mention a content fork) to have two articles about essentially the same curve.--RDBury (talk) 23:09, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It would be nice to know why on earth this construction is a thing, and why it's called a "pedal" curve. Something to do with feet or walking?
203.13.3.94 (talk) 23:56, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]