Glossary
- knot
-
An embedding of the unit circle into three dimensions. Be warned that I often refer to
link
s as knots in this manual.
- link
-
A collection of (more-than-one) disjoint embeddings of the unit circle into three dimensions.
Sometimes I call one component links knots in this manual.
- PGM
-
Portable Grey Map file format. This is the grey-scale version of the
PNM format. Read the
on-line description.
- PNM
-
Portable aNy Map file format. Actually a collection of file formats.
PNM files (the raw versions) are good, simple, and useful file formats for colour, grey
scale, and binary images. There are many tools installed on most platforms that can manipulate
PNM images.
- PPM
-
Portable Pix Map file format. The colour version of the PNM format.
The view window can be output as a PPM file using the
ppmout
command. Read the
on-line description.
- torus knot
-
A torus knot is a knot that can be drawn on the surface of a standard torus without
self-intersections. Use the
torus
command to generate one.
Examples are shown
at the KnotPlot Site.
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