CSE325 Computers

and Sculpture

Prof. George Hart

Knots and Surfaces

• Good Reference:– Colin Adams, The Knot Book

• Free Software:– SeifertView– KnotPlot

• Links:– http://www.popmath.org.uk/exhib/knotexhib.html– http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/whatsnew/column

/knots-0499/knots1.html– http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/knotlink.htm

Shinkichi Tajiri

Joern Hansen

Jacqueline Piatigorsky

John Robinson

Keizo Ushio

Tom Longtin

Brent Collins

Brent Collins

Brent Collins

Knot Divided

Stan Wagon, Dan Schwalb, Carlo Sequin, John Sullivan, Richard Seely

John Robinson

Celtic Knot on Tile

Celtic Knot on Egg

Bob Bosch

Helaman Ferguson

Helaman Ferguson

Max Bill

Tom Longtin

Charles Perry

Rinus Roelofs

Jeff Koons

Stewart Dickson

Rinus Roelofs

Torolf Sauermann

Torolf Sauermann

Torolf Sauermann

Torolf Sauermann

SeifertView Software

SeifertView Software

http://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/seifertview/

Experimental version which saves a mesh file:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/seifertview/seifertview1.1.exe

(See “Misc.” and the “Advanced” button. It outputs an .obj file, which you can convert to .stl or .dxf, import it into Maya, and thicken the single-sided surface to contain a volume.)