Is there a function that looks like in the graph attached?

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Is there a function that looks like this? The idea is to find a family of functions where infinitely many of them converge to a point (pictured in orange) and the curves eventually have more distance as between one another as you travel away from the point. However, none of the curves intersect.

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If the curves are differentiable in the orange region, it would be great, but if not, piecewise functions will also work. Ideally, a single $f(x,y)$ such that each curve is $f(x,y) = c$ for some $c \in \mathbb{R}$ is the most desirable.

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There could be many examples consisting of the level curves of some function $f(x,y)=c$.

For example, for $f(x,y)=\left\vert\dfrac{1}{(x-1)(y-2)}\right\vert$ the level curves aproach the point $(1,2)$ in the manner you describe for $c_{2k-1}=2^k$, $c_{2k}=2^{-k}$ when $k$ is a positive integer. In fact, they approach the graph of $(x-1)(y-2)=0$. graph of level curves