Cross stitching (revisited)

Challenge

Can you draw this curve smoothly using only a straight edge and a pencil?

You can do it by continuing this pattern:

You could try it on Python from this starting point. Note that the co-ordinates are not correct for the first segment yet!

You could even try to do it in all four quadrants:

Or at an angle:

There is an ancient art called cross stitching that uses these ideas.

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