\documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{width=7cm,compat=1.8} \usepgfplotslibrary{polar} \title{Butterfly curve} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \def\a{1} \def\b{4} \def\c{12} \def\A{2} \def\B{5} \def\pig{3.14} % \begin{scope} \node at (2.5,0) {The Butterfly curve: Fay's polar equation}; \end{scope} % \begin{scope}[shift={(0,-6.5)}] \begin{polaraxis}[grid=none,hide y axis] \addplot+[mark=none,domain=0:3600,samples=2000] {e^cos(\a * x)-\A * cos(\b * x) + (sin(x / \c))^\B}; \end{polaraxis} \node at (2.5,-1) {$\rho = e^{\cos \vartheta} - 2 \cos (4 \theta) + \sin^5 (\vartheta / 12)$}; \end{scope} % \begin{scope}[shift={(0,-15)}] \node at (2.5,6.5) {The Butterfly curve: Geum and Kim's equation}; \begin{polaraxis}[grid=none,hide y axis] \addplot+[mark=none,domain=0:3600,samples=2000,color=red] {e^sin(\a * x)-\A * cos(\b * x) + (sin((2*x - \pig)/ (2*\c)))^\B}; \end{polaraxis} \node at (2.5,-1) {$\rho = e^{\sin \vartheta} - 2 \cos (4 \theta) + \sin^5 \left ( \frac{2\vartheta -\pi}{24} \right )$}; \end{scope} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}