The Knot Zoo

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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May 25th, 2011 2

Old but very interesting page from Canadian Robert Scharein, programmer of the visualization software KnotPlot. The knots are organized by the number of crossings, and can be clicked on to display rotatable 3D models. [via Maxwell’s Demon]

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Richard Crowley says:

May 26th, 2011 at 12:04 am

Glad to see this covered. This was a wonderful resource back when I took a class on Knot Theory. For those interested in Knots (and various mathematical properties of them), http://katlas.math.toronto.edu/wiki/Main_Page is a great page as well.

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The Knot Zoo

By Sean Michael Ragan