Timeline for How to see isometries of figure 8 knot complement
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| Mar 10, 2017 at 9:42 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://etc.usf.edu/ with https://etc.usf.edu/
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| Jan 23, 2015 at 7:59 | history | edited | Ryan Budney | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fix broken link
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| Nov 19, 2011 at 6:24 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | The only fixed points are on the knot -- it's free on the knot complement. | |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 6:14 | comment | added | j.c. | Maybe I'm confused; isn't the OP trying to visualize a fixed-point free involution? | |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 1:49 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | The latter image was generated in two steps. The knot and the line were computed in some C++ code that I wrote. Then the 3-dimensional data was output into a PoVRay format, which was then rendered in PoVray: povray.org The top image I just grabbed in a Google search. | |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 0:45 | comment | added | pinaki | Nice! What did you use to generate the picture? | |
| Nov 18, 2011 at 23:56 | history | answered | Ryan Budney | CC BY-SA 3.0 |