CSE325 Computers and Sculpture

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CSE325 Computersand Sculpture

• Prof. George Hart

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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/k
  nots-0499/knots1.html
• http//www.earlham.edu/peters/knotlink.htm

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Shinkichi Tajiri
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Joern Hansen
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Jacqueline Piatigorsky
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John Robinson
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Keizo Ushio
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Tom Longtin
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Brent Collins
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Brent Collins
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Brent Collins
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Knot Divided
Stan Wagon, Dan Schwalb, Carlo Sequin, John
Sullivan, Richard Seely
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John Robinson
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Celtic Knot on Tile
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Celtic Knot on Egg
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Bob Bosch
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Helaman Ferguson
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Helaman Ferguson
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Max Bill
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Tom Longtin
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Charles Perry
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Rinus Roelofs
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Jeff Koons
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Stewart Dickson
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Rinus Roelofs
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Torolf Sauermann
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Torolf Sauermann
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Torolf Sauermann
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Torolf Sauermann
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SeifertView Software
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SeifertView Software
http//www.win.tue.nl/vanwijk/seifertview/ Exper
imental version which saves a mesh file
http//www.win.tue.nl/vanwijk/seifertview/seifert
view1.1.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.)