Freeth's supertrisectrix is the strophoid of a limaçon trisectrix with the center of its generating circle as pole and its double point as fixed point (Lockwood 1967, p. 136).
Choose a scale ,
pole
, and fixed point
. The generating limaçon
trisectrix can then be parametrized as
.
For
, the strophoid
consists of the two points on the line
whose distance from
equals
,
together with their limiting points. Both branches are
traced by the parametric equations
|
(1)
| |||
|
(2)
|
where
(Mangaldan 2021). Equivalently, the polar equation
is
|
(3)
|
for .
The curve can be used to construct a regular hendecagon. Its intersection with the perpendicular
bisector of
gives an isosceles triangle
whose base angles are
and whose vertex angle is
("Appendix" 1879).