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Cardioid from a Rolling Circle in Two Ways

The most familiar method of creating a cardioid is as the path drawn by a point on the circumference of a circle as it rolls without slipping around another circle of the same radius. Less well-known is that if we have a circle with twice the radius of the fixed circle, then a point on its circumference will also draw a cardioid (although the large circle must surround the fixed circle.)