its also really fun top play around with cylindrical coordinates.
There are some beautiful mathmatical curves like the RoseFunction or
the hypotrochoid curve (spirograph).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_curve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrochoid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicycloid

I've just posted some examples of these for grasshopper here:
http://shift-lab.blogspot.com/



On Oct 18, 5:24 am, taz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An equally simple alternative would be to use expressions with the
> create point component (instead of creating all the points within a
> function component).
>
> What viscose suggested is probably a quicker if your going to be
> changing your graphing functions a lot.  They both do the same thing.
>
> http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/graphcurve2.png
>
> taz
>
> On Oct 17, 7:11 pm, visose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>
> > This is probably the simplest 
> > way:http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/graphcurve.jpg
> > The graph is placed in the YZ plane instead of XY and I made the curve
> > a pipe... don't ask me why.
>
> > On Oct 17, 11:20 pm, "a." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > I want to generate a curve based on a mathematical equation (ie.
> > > y=x^2). I have a function but don't know how to graph it to get a
> > > curve. I want to do this for a range, say from -2 to 2. I want to look
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