A variety of knots with optimized forms
A selection of knots that have been optimized for visual appearance. The list makes no claims for completeness; the examples are intended to show the abilities of the package.
Knots with names like k7_3 use the naming scheme of Rolfsen.
Knots with names like k11n157 follow the nomenclature of the
Hoste-Thistlethwaite table; ‘a’ means ‘alternating’
and ‘n’ means ‘nonalternating’.
Knot k12a_614 is drawn from the “Table of Knot
Invariants” by Livingstone and Cha.
Knot amphichiral15 is the unique amphichiral knot with crossing
number 15, due to Hoste, Thistlethwaite, and Weeks.
Knots k12n_0411 and k11a203 show that partial symmetry
may be enforced.
Knot k8_18 is an exceptional knot.
Knot pretzel_p3_p5_p7_m3_m5 is drawn from a knot appearing in
Bryant 2016. The notation specifies the sense (‘p’ for plus
and ‘m’ for minus) of the twists.
Knot T20 is a “remarkable 20-crossing tangle”; see references
J. C. Cha and C. Livingston. KnotInfo: Table of Knot Invariants, http://www.indiana.edu/~knotinfo, July 7, 2016
K. A. Bryant, 2016. Slice implies mutant-ribbon for odd,
5-stranted pretzel knots, arXiv:1511.07009v2
S. Eliahou and J. Fromentin 2017. “A remarkable 20-crossing tangle”. Arxiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05560v2
knotplot(k3_1)
## maybe str(k3_1) ; plot(k3_1) ...
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