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Antoine's Necklace by Matt Grayson and Charlie Gunn

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A stage in the construction of Antoine's Necklace. Beginning with a single torus, the necklace is the limit of a sequence where each step replaces a torus with N linked tori (here N=10). It's known that a function exists whose critical set is exactly the necklace.

Image created: Feb 1992

[Antoine's Necklace]

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