How knotted is a knot?
This knot, despite of its complicated appearance, is equivalent to a trefoil knot with 3 crossings.
You can better understand this fact if you compare the image with this other position of the knot.
This image has been realized with the program KnotPlot.
© matematita
The image belongs to the sections...:
From "fragments of topology" (From "XlaTangente")
Images from the topology section (From the exhibitions of matematita)
Trefoil knot (Topology)
Further information:
http://www.pims.math.ca/knotplot/
