Last edited 30july02 by Yana Malysheva
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IlliTantrix: New Ways of Looking at Knots.

Abstract

This real-time interactive computer visualization of the tangent indicatrix of a knot animates the work of Colin Adams on counting the number of crossings in continuously varying knot-projections. The software was written in OpenGL and Java at the "illiMath2002" NSF-VIGRE supported REU.

some interesting stuff:

a powerpoint about illiTantrix

a windows executable of illiTantrix

my math198 project website