Re: Plotting the Lemniscate of Bernoulli
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- Subject: [mg59889] Re: Plotting the Lemniscate of Bernoulli
- From: "Narasimham" <mathma18 at hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:32:49 -0400 (EDT)
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The Lemniscate of Bernoulli is a planar curve. So you want a twisted toroidal tube with either t or u varied such that it is a Lemniscate of Bernoulli by displacement or rotation? These are planar sections with zero torsion. Rotation of the Lemniscate around y - axis produces a zero hole toroidal surface of revolution, but it may not be very interesting. Quite apart from that, this one works.(Changes in Pi and PlotPoints). knot1 = ParametricPlot3D[{2*(10 + Cos[u])(Cos[t])/(1 + Sin[t]^2), (10 + Sin[u])(Sin[t]Cos[t])/(1 + Sin[t]^2),u*Sin[t]},{t, 0,2*Pi }, {u, 0,3}, PlotPoints -> {65,5}, ViewPoint -> {1, 2, 1}] ;