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The 5 Roelofs-Platonic Polyknots

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These knots are inspired by math artist Rinus Roelofs and modeled on the Platonic polyhedra.

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This collection includes one Roelofs octahedral polylink and the other four are polyknots. They have knots at each vertex of the base polyhedron from which they are derived corresponding to its vertex configuration. For example, the dodecahedral polyknot has 20 trefoil knots (three crossing knots): one at each of its 20 vertices yielding a crossing number of 60. Since the vertex of the octahedron is four and thus an even number it is a link with a link number of 24.

It is recommended that thesemodels be printed with a z-axis setting of 125 mm or greater. 

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