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To finish off the discussion of how we can investigate parametric curves interactively with GC, we can check that an ellipse is simply a scaled circle by
Below, we connect the corresponding dots on the circumscribing circle to those on the ellipse:   By the way, GC has a really irritating bug with function
Here's part 2, dealing with applying the drawing parameter t to different parts of an expression to draw different elements of a figure. For the circle, if we
The basic idea behind parametric curves is simply to use the reserved variable "t" along with vectors or complex numbers. Below, t multiplying the [2 1]
Here's a simple example where you can have both the regular curve via F(t) and the progressively drawn curve via F(nt), where n runs from 0 to 1.