The trefoil knot 3_1 is the only three-crossing knot, which means that every other knot that can be drawn as a projection in the plane with three crossings (and no…
Today we’ll start going through the knot conformations in the series we introduced yesterday. Before we begin, let’s go over some of the basic notation and ideas of knot theory.…
The final project for this semester’s MATH 297 – Knot Theory Research and 3D Printing course was to research and print a set of interesting knot conformations for the first fifteen knots…
Today we fix our fail from Friday (Day 263), and print Cairo pentagons and prismatic pentagons from data kindly provided by Frank Morgan’s student Maggie Miller at Williams College. I have…
To finish the furniture series we have one final print: some of the pieces that we couldn’t fit into our apartment and that will be traveling to North Carolina to…
Being off by one is probably the simplest, most common coding mistake you can make, but it got me this week while I was trying to make tessellating Cairo pentagon…
Today our Customizable Furniture Minis set is finally done and posted to Thingiverse! I guess it’s time to actually start packing now… Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:332507 Settings: All models printed on a…
Sometimes with scaled floor plans it is difficult to tell if your setup is crowded or not. To test out the openness of our layout we printed two “clearance stars”…
Today’s print is very simple: just a snap-around bed frame to model the wooden frame around our king-size bed. As you can see in the picture, we’ve chosen the smallest…
This will be our last week of printing tiny furniture; after a few more days we’ll have a full set and will post everything to the Thingiverse Customizer so that…
