Butterfly curve may refer to:
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Butterfly curve (algebraic), a curve defined by a trinomial
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Butterfly curve (transcendental)
The butterfly curve is a transcendental plane curve discovered by Temple H. Fay of University of Southern Mississippi in 1989.
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Equation
The curve is given by the following parametric equations:
:x = \sin t \!\left(e^ - 2\cos 4t - \ ...
, a curve based on sine functions
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