• New on CTAN: pst-sphericaltrochoid

    From CTAN Announcements@petra@ctan.org to CTAN Announcements on Fri Dec 26 09:33:36 2025
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    Herbert Vo|f submitted the

    pst-sphericaltrochoid

    package.

    Version: 0.01 2025-12-25
    License: lppl

    Summary description: Create animations of a spherical trochoid

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    This package simulates the generation of a spherical trochoid
    by a point on a circle rolling without sliding along the edge
    of another circle, but on the same sphere.-a

    For an pdf animation one needs the AdobeReader for viewing it.
    A gif animation (see documentation) can be viewed with several
    viewers (see subdirectory "/animations").

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    The packagerCOs Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/pst-sphericaltrochoid

    The packagerCOs files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-sphericaltrochoid/

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Petra R|+be-Pugliese

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