Epicycloids and Hypocycloids

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Circle rolling inside a bigger circle, tracing out a rose curve. The random dots help to show the rotating plane centered on the contact point of 2 rolling curves. The significance is that the contact point to the tracing point is the normal of the curve, and this is true for any curve rolling on another curve.

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