A js rendered knot forming experiment
A mathematical knot is an embedding of the circle into three-dimensional Euclidean space. Some common knots are
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unknot
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trefoil
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Figure eight knot
- It is computationally hard to characterize what kind of a knot it is.
- Our own DNA can be knotted. In fact, there is an enzyme that can open up the knotted DNA and let it form other kind of knots.
- It looks cool!
- Install node, for Mac
brew install node
- Install dependencies
npm install
- build and run
npm run build npm start
- Now visit the website at http://localhost:8080
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Here is how it looks like initially with the keybind listed on top of the page
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Here is a knot
