Pick some values and watch the beautiful art! How to make… Epicycloids, Epitrochoids, and Hypotrochoids - Arm 2 > Arm 1 Hypotrochoids - Arm 1 > Arm 2 or Arm 1 = Arm 2
The more speed, the less accurate it is but the faster it is. In the first one, the arms were 75 and 45.