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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 35, Number 2, pages 127-139 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2024_2_127

ABOUT THE INVERSION OF THE RECTANGULAR HYPERBOLAS ON THE SUPERCIRCLES

Toni Chehlarova

Czech Forestry Academy Trutnov, Lesnická 9, Trutnov, Czech Republic;
Email: spichal@clatrutnov.cz

Abstract: The article shows that the inversion of a simple smooth curve as the rectangular hyperbola might lead to the broad scale of differently formed curves reminding many natural shapes.

Keywords: rectangular hyperbola, inversion, supercircle, Gielis transformation.
MSC 2010: 53A04, 51M99.

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