Celebrating the Cycloid

<p>It&rsquo;s not very often that you discover a new shape. I think most of us assume our knowledge of shapes has been covered for some time. We know our squares, circles, and triangles from elementary school along with later high school additions of parabolas, ellipses, and sine curves. But nobody learns a new shape in the their 30&#39;s, right? Wrong!</p> <p>I recently discovered a new and fascinating shape: the cycloid. Yes, you read that correctly &mdash; a new shape. For this blog, I aimed to introduce myself (and my handful of readers) to this shape. It ended up being way more fun (and nerdier) than I expected.&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://rysullivan.medium.com/celebrating-the-cycloid-be4350ff187b"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>