famous curves

Closed curves

• Circle
• Ellipse
• Astroid
• Cardioid
• Cassini oval
• Lemniscate
• graphs of spherical functions
• Lissajous curves

Periodic curves

• Sinusoid
• Cycloid
• Triangular-wave curve

Unbounded

• Line
• Hyperbola
• Parabola
• Semicubical parabola
• Cubic hyperbola
• Logarithmic spiral
• Archimedean spiral
• Nielsen's spiral
• Gaussian and Lorentzian curves
• graphs of Bessel functions
• graphs of Legendre polynomials
• Catenary
• Tractrix
• Clothoid
• Lamé's cubic
• Witch of Agnesi
• Cissoid of Diocles
• Conchoid of Nicomedes
• Quadratrix of Hippias
• graphs of damped sine and cosine functions
• graphs of sinc function, sine integral, gamma function, function $x^x$

Space curves

• Circular helix
• Loxodrome

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