Our image of the week may look like a bird in flight...
Image by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh.
...but it's actually a collection of points in the plane given by a mathematical formula. To be precise, it's a subset of the
complex plane consisting of points of the form
$$\lambda A(t)+(1-\lambda)B(t),$$
where
$$A(t)= 3(\sin(t))^{3}- \frac{3i}{4}\cos(4t)$$ and
$$B(t)= \frac{3}{2}(\sin(t))^{5} - \frac{i}{2}\cos(3t)$$ for $0\leq t \leq 2\pi$ and $0\leq \lambda \leq 1.$
The image was created by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh. You can see more of Hamid's images on this website and on the American Mathematical Society website.
See here to find out more about the complex plane and here to see previous images of the week.
3 birds other than this one
Hamid Naderi Yeganeh has 3 birds other than this one. I found them on these pages:
A Bird in Flight
Math Art: Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
Catch of the day: mathematician nets weird, complex fish