These Beautiful Images Are Created By Drawing Rectangles

These Beautiful Images Are Created By Drawing Rectangles
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Mathematical formulas enable us to create an infinite number of beautiful images. Below are ten mathematical images which are made by trigonometric functions. I just used high-school level mathematics to create them. At the end of this post you can see the mathematical description of "7,000 Rectangles (2)".

5,000 Rectangles (1)
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10,000 Rectangles (1)
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6,000 Rectangles (1)
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6,000 Rectangles (2)
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10,000 Rectangles (2)
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7,000 Rectangles (1)
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5,000 Rectangles (2)
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10,000 Rectangles (3)
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10,000 Rectangles (4)
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7,000 Rectangles (2)
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This image shows 7,000 rectangles. For each k=1, 2, 3, ... , 7000 the vertices of the k-th rectangle are:

(X(k)-A(k), Y(k)-B(k)),

(X(k)+A(k), Y(k)-B(k)),

(X(k)+A(k), Y(k)+B(k)),

(X(k)-A(k), Y(k)+B(k)),

where

X(k)=((1/4)+(3/4)(cos(πk/700)))sin(2πk/7000),

Y(k)=((1/4)+(3/4)(cos(πk/700)))cos(2πk/7000),

A(k)=(1/200)+(1/7)(cos(84πk/7000)),

B(k)=(1/200)+(1/7)(sin(82πk/7000)).

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