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For an university assignment I have to visualize some curves in 3 dimensional space.

Until now I've implemented Bézier, helix and conical spiral.

Could you give me some advice about some famous curves in geometry history?

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    The [baseball seam](http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/baseball/) maybe? Does it actually have a name?2010-12-23
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    @Willie: I don't remember it being "officially" named either. Anyway, I found two more [interesting](http://faculty.ccc.edu/gbart/baseball/BALLSEAMTRBB1997.pdf) [links](http://www.maa.org/joma/Volume8/Miller/index.html)...2010-12-23
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    ...and I mentioned two more historically interesting space curves in the answer to [this question](http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/9159).2010-12-23
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    The curve that solves the brachistochrone problem is historically important, though not much to look at.2011-07-31

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