Spirographs and Parametric plots in Stata

Asjad Naqvi
The Stata Gallery
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13 min readJun 20, 2022

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This is a relatively fun guide that provides a walk-through for generating parametric plots in Stata. In this guide we will learn about spirographs and their variations, some interesting parametric functions we can play around with, and Guilloche patterns that gives us these figures below:

This guide is not meant to cover the maths behind the figures. There is a lot of it! If you are…

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Asjad Naqvi
The Stata Gallery

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