Are all traces of parametric curves dependent of the parameter?

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I was trying to plot the parametric curve

$(cos(t^{2}), sin(t^{2}), 0 )$ with some online graphing tool.

Shouldn't the trace of this curve be the same as a circle, with only difference being how fast the curves "runs" through the circle with respect to t?

Yet the trace of the function I get with these online tools have points all over the interior of the trace of a circle.

Is my assumption incorrect?

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You are right, the curve should be on the $z=0$ axis.

I have attached the output from desmos, an online tool to plot graph.

It holds due to the identity of $\sin^2(t)+\cos^2(t)=1$, and hence $\sin^2(t^2)+\cos^2(t^2)=1$ holds as well.

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