Expressed as θ, the involute polar angle is the angle between a radius vector to a point, P, on an involute curve and a radial line to the intersection, A, of the curve with the base circle.
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“So much symmetry!
Like the pale angle of time
And eternity.
The great shape labored and fell.”
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