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Keywords: Nielsen's spiral.png Plot of Nielsen's spiral also known as the sici spiral This picture was created by Jitse Niesen using the following Matlab code <pre> ts linspace 0 8 30 1000 ; xs 1/2i expint ts 1i - expint -ts 1i ; sine integral ys -1/2 expint ts 1i + expint -ts 1i ; cosine integral plot xs ys 'LineWidth' 2 ; axis equal; axis off; print -dpng 'nielsen_tmp png'; system 'convert -trim -bordercolor white -border 10 +repage nielsen_tmp png nielsen png' ; </pre> Euler spirals |