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Originally Posted by araporta
Thats the first place I looked, and it doesn't really help. I can see how to enter a parametric equation, such as that in post #5 above, but I don't get how to enter Ether's equation in post #8, which is not parametric? Its probably trivial, but I just can't see how to do it.
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r1 = starting radius at theta=0,
r2 = ending radius (at theta=alpha),
k=log(r2/r1)/alpha,
r = r1*exp(k*theta),
x = r*cos(theta),
y = r*sin(theta)
...
So for r1=25, r2=5, and alpha=2*pi, you would get:
x = 25*exp(-0.11124453*t)*cos(t)
and
y = 25*exp(-0.11124453*t)*sin(t)