Melissa Houck

I used Excel to create known curves. I then “mixed” the x’s and y’s from two different curves to create a new family of curves. Each combo of 2 curves can be combined in several different ways, but only 3 or 4 of those are distinct and interesting. To make this more interactive and fun, I created a wheel showing a curve in the middle. As you turn this wheel, it displays two pictures in addition to the middle curve – one showing the curve with which the middle curve is blended, and one showing the group of 3 or 4 new curves that result. Combining photo prints with matboard and cake rounds, I created a curve blending wheel that blends the astroid with the besace, cranioid, ophiuride, and Cayley’s sectic curves.

Analogous to the Astroid Curve Blending Wheel discussed above, I created a Hippopede Curve Blending Wheel that blends the hippopede with the cycoid of ceva, capricornoid, deltoid, and cubical parabola curves.