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Strang's Strange Figures


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Strang's strange figures are the figures produced by plotting a periodic function f(z) as a function of an integer argument n for n=1, 2, .... Unexpected patterns and periodicities result from near-commensurabilities of certain rational numbers with the period (Richert 1992). Strang figures are shown above for a number of common functions.


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Moiré Pattern

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References

Richert, N. "Strang's Strange Figures." Amer. Math. Monthly 99, 101-107, 1992.Strang, G. Calculus. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 1991.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Strang's Strange Figures." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/StrangsStrangeFigures.html

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