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Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space.  It proceeds from the world of knots to their complementary spaces -- what's not a knot.  Profound theorems of recent mathematics show that most knot complements carry the structure of hyperbolic geometry, a geometry in which the sum of the three angles of a triangle is always less than 180 degrees.
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- 1-D Euclidean Tiling
 - 2-D Cone Space
 - 2-D Euclidean Tiling
 - 3-D Cone Space
 
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- 3-D Euclidean Tiling
 - 4 Dodecahedra in Hyperbolic Space
 - Borromean Ring Complement Manifold 1
 - Borromean Ring Complement Manifold 2
 
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- Borromean Ring Complement Manifold 3
 - Borromean Rings in 3-D
 - Borromean Rings
 - Cube with 1st Pair Glued
 
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- Cube with 2nd Pair Glued
 - Cube with 3 Pair Colored Axes
 - Cube with 3rd Pair Glued
 - Cube with Borromean Rings Cut Out
 
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- Figure 8 Knot
 - Hyperbolic Dodecahedron
 - Hyperbolic Space Tiled with Dodecahedra, 1
 - Hyperbolic Space Tiled with Dodecahedra, 2
 
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- Life in 3-D Cone Space
 - Not Knot Poster
 - The Borromean Ring Complement Manifold
 - The Order-7 Borromean Ring Orbifold
 
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- Title, "Not Knot"
 
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