Limaçon 帕斯卡蜗线
In geometry, a limaçon or limacon , also known as a limaçon of Pascal, is defined as a roulette formed by the path of a point fixed to a circle when that circle rolls around the outside of a circle of equal radius. It can also be defined as the roulette formed when a circle rolls around a circle with half its radius so that the smaller circle is inside the larger circle. Thus, they belong to the family of curves called centered trochoids; more specifically, they are epitrochoids. The cardioid is the special case in which the point generating the roulette lies on the rolling circle; the resulting curve has a cusp.
的圆，从圆周上任意一定点
引射线
，交圆于点
。在
和
,当射线
的值而变化，有时候是心脏线，有时候有内外两支，类似蜗牛壳，故被称作“limaçon”，这个词的本义是“小蜗牛”，源于拉丁语的 “limax”。
