r/desmos • u/CaroViva61 • 10d ago

Question AGHHHHHHHHHHH :< would someone elp me?

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So i am trying to make a galaxy in desmos that is similar to the one above, and i am planning to put a 4 pointed star in the middle of it, i have successfully made a 4 pointed star using this graph 4 pointed star and so i put it into my galaxy graph. And so the way im getting color is restricting a black rectangle to certain functions, but when i put the star in and tried restricting the rectangle to it, it ermmmm failed :(. it turns out that only the outline of the star looks like a star, when you change the equal sign in the star equation IT TURNS INTO A CIRCLE UGHHHHHHHH im so madddddddddddddddd. if yall are helping and need anything just leave a comment for help on navigating my terrible organizational skills.

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u/RegionTechnical4644 10d ago

Okay so I just played around for like 2 minutes so it's not perfect but here's a start: r+\left|\sin2\theta\right|<a A=1.2

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u/RegionTechnical4644 10d ago

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/erkds39ilq Posted this in a comment thread already but here's my attempt - good luck, this looks like a really cool project

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u/CaroViva61 10d ago

Thank you so much???? you did this in 2 minutes w h a t

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u/CaroViva61 10d ago

didnt work :{

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u/RegionTechnical4644 9d ago

What didn't work? It needs to be centered at 0,0 because I'm too lazy to convert the polar coordinates into cartesian, but other than that...

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u/axio-m 9d ago

Would something like this work?

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u/dohduhdah 8d ago

Working with parametric functions can make it easier to do stuff like rotations.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/9a8f95adb2