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In geometry, a cardioid is the curve traced by a point on the edge of a circular wheel that is rolling around a fixed wheel of the same size. The resulting curve is roughly heart-shaped[1], with a cusp at the place where the point touches the fixed wheel.
The cardioid is a roulette, and can be viewed as either an epicycloid with one cusp or as a member of the family of limaçons. It is also a type of sinusoidal spiral, and is the inverse curve of a parabola[2] with the focus as the center of inversion[3].
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A cardioid generated by a rolling circle.
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Four graphs of cardioids oriented in the four cardinal directions, with their respective polar equations.
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資料來源: STEVIE-G™(知識長)