Construction of the Cubic of Stationary Curvature for a Four-bar Linkage

This video shows the construction of the cubic of stationary curvature. The intersection of the cubic of stationary curvature with the inflection circle, iw Ball’s point which is a coupler point that traces a locally straight line trajectory.

This video also shows how to vary the coupler point and the dimensions of the reference polygon for the four-bar linkage to vary the shape of the coupler curve.

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