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On the aesthetics of inversion and osculation

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The goal of this article is to present an informal introduction and tutorial on certain graphical aspects of inversion and osculation for the non-mathematician and to present artistic renditions using these methods.

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    Clifford A. Pickover

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Pickover, C.A. On the aesthetics of inversion and osculation. The Visual Computer 8, 233–240 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01900658

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