Hypotrochoid
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Hypotrochoid - The details
A hypotrochoid is a roulette traced by a point attached to a circle of radius r rolling around the inside of a fixed circle of radius R, where the point is a distance d from the center of the interior circle. This is vector valued periodic function. The parametric equations for a hypotrochoid are :