Nathaniel Bowditch

1773–1838

American mathematician and navigator who studied the same harmonic curves with a compound pendulum decades before Lissajous.

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Patterns shaped by their work

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Lissajous Weave

Form · Line density · Turn

Lissajous Grid

Cells · Weight · Phase