Tangent indicatrix

In differential geometry, the tangent indicatrix of a closed space curve is a curve on the unit sphere intimately related to the curvature of the original curve.

be a closed curve with nowhere-vanishing tangent vector

is the closed curve on the unit sphere given by

(the integral of curvature with respect to arc length along the curve) is equal to the arc length of

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