Epitrochoid / hypotrochoid curve (spirograph art)

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Permalink Reply by Vladislav Tutka on June 18, 2015 at 3:15pm

CHANGELOG v.2

* All definition is rewritten to small C# script.

* Removed the possibility to set number of points to build curve, now it computes the greatest similarity to original with minimal resources usage.

* Some fixes and optimizations.

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• hypoepitrochoid_v.2.gh, 16 KB

Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on June 19, 2015 at 6:11pm

Great for us jewelers, thanks! Projecting these onto shallow hemispheres as tubes might be fun, followed by smoothing.

Permalink Reply by Siemen on July 3, 2015 at 1:46pm

Cool!

I added some changing z-values in grasshopper to the points from your script and tried CNC milling it out by writing Gcode from that: