Rhodonea curves or rose curves are plots of a polar equation of the form
\(r = \cos(k \theta)\).
If we specialise to equations with
\(k= \frac{n}{d}\)
for n and d integers (>0), then we have plots of the form below. In the table n runs across and d down
Now, just for fun I considered a slight variant of this given by
\(r = \cos( k \theta) – k\)
The plots are as follows
For another variant I considered
\(r = \cos( k \theta) – k^{-1}\)
I am not sure there is anything mathematically deep here, I just like the images and classify this as some basic mathematical art.