Introduction

Here are some links to a table of knots, up to 9 crossings, built as three-dimensional objects.

Which Knots?


Translated for Atractor by Gabriela Chaves, from its original version in Portuguese. Atractor is grateful for her cooperation.

Some system crashes were detected in Firefox browser version 91.13.0esr 64-bit, on Linux. Tests with other non-Firefox-derived browsers such as Brave worked as expected.

(*) The routines for the creation of the 3D curves were written essentially by Vítor Sousa, according to a detailed plan previously suggested in the scope of "Estágio". (Ramo Educacional da Licenciatura em Matemática - F.C.U.P - 2000/2001.). That subject acted as a guideline for a first contact with Mathematica.
Since many browsers are blocking Java nowadays, it was decided to convert to Javascript the original applets of this section. This conversion was carried out within the scope of a support received from FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, through FACC (Fundo de Apoio à Comunidade Científica).