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DINOSTRATUS QUADRATRIX
Curve studied by Hippias of Elis in 430 BC and by Dinostratus in 350 BC.
Dinostratus (4th century BC): Greek mathematician. Other name: Hippias sectrix. |
Cartesian-polar parametrization: Polar equation: |
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The Dinostratus quadratrix is the locus of the intersection points between a line in a uniform translation and a line in a uniform rotation, the two lines coinciding at some moment. In that capacity, it is a limit case of Maclaurin sectrix, when one of the poles is at infinity. |
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It is the inverse with respect to O of a cochleoid. | ![]() |
Consider the complex parametrization: |
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The Dinostratus quadratrix also is the projection on a plane perpendicular to the axis of the section of a right helicoid by a plane containing a generatrix of the helicoid.
As you can tell by the name, this curve is a quadratrix; indeed:.
But it was first considered by Hippias as a trisectrix and even an n-sectrix; indeed .
If we study the general case of the loci of intersection points between a line in uniform translation and a line in uniform rotation, we get the following curves, that also are multisectrices:
Cartesian-polar parametrization: Polar equation: Cartesian equation: |
![]() Case where q0 = p/2 , with equation |
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