A Bird in Flight

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An example of A Bird in Flight[1][2]

A Bird in Flight are bird-like geometric patterns that were introduced by mathematical artist Hamid Naderi Yeganeh.[3][4][5] Yeganeh has created these figures by combing through tens of thousands of computer-generated images. They are defined by trigonometric functions.[6] An example of such patterns is a composed of 500 line segments where for each i=1, 2, 3, \ldots , 500 the endpoints of the i-th line segment are:


\left(\frac{3}{2}\left(\sin\left(\frac{2\pi i}{500}+\frac{\pi}{3}\right)\right)^{7},\,\frac{1}{4}\left(\cos\left(\frac{6\pi i}{500}\right)\right)^{2}\right)

and


\left(\frac{1}{5}\sin\left(\frac{6\pi i}{500}+\frac{\pi}{5}\right),\,\frac{-2}{3}\left(\sin\left(\frac{2\pi i}{500}-\frac{\pi}{3}\right)\right)^{2}\right)
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