Trigonometric Stained-Glass Windows

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To make the virtual “painting” above, I plotted simple and moderately-complex trigonometric functions on a single coordinate plane, as shown below, using Geometer’s Sketchpad. I then erased all the text, etc., copied-and-pasted a screenshot into MS-Paint, and used that program to make the finished image above.

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Basic Trigonometric Functions, Viewed On a Polar Coordinate System

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Basic Trigonometric Functions, Viewed On a Polar Coordinate System

The last post made me curious about other trigonometric functions’ graphs, in a polar coordinate system. They were not what I expected. Here they are.