# code to draw the spinning ellipse set terminal postscript eps color enhanced size 7cm,7cm font "Times-Italic,24pt" dashlength 2.0 set output 'centralmotion1.eps' set multiplot set parametric set xrange [-1.7:1.7] set yrange [-1.7:1.7] set trange [49:89.6] set border 0 unset xtics unset ytics x(t)=cos(t)/(1+0.4*cos(1.1*t)) y(t)=sin(t)/(1+0.4*cos(1.1*t)) plot x(t), y(t) lw 4 notitle # circles set trange [-pi:pi] plot cos(t)/1.4, sin(t)/1.4 lt 2 lc rgb 'black' notitle set arrow from 0,0 to cos(1.4)/1.4, sin(1.4)/1.4 filled set arrow from 0,0 to cos(1.)/0.6, sin(1.)/0.6 filled set label 1 "r_{/Times-Roman min}" at -.5,.4 set label 2 "r_{/Times-Roman max}" at 0.7,1.7 set arrow from 1,-1.5 to 0.7,-1.3 set label 3 "{/Times-Bold r}(t)" at 1.1, -1.5 plot cos(t)/0.6, sin(t)/0.6 lt 2 lc rgb 'black' notitle