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It's been too long and I'd have to look at it again. Consider the question of "what internal structure would you use to represent the trefoil knot?" - https://
by shagie 4y ago
It's been too long and I'd have to look at it again.
Consider the question of "what internal structure would you use to represent the trefoil knot?" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefoil_knot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefoil_knot // https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TrefoilKnot.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TrefoilKnot.html
And then figure out how to convert an ascii art image that represents that knot into that internal format... and you do a "I'll do it later" which never comes around.
- kadoban 4y agoYeah that seems pretty tricky. I'm somewhat convinced that the graph representation will work (it can represent the input correctly), but I'm not yet sure if it's actually useful or not for an algorithm to work through.
- shagie 4y agoIt needs to be in a format that you can then use existing algorithms with - the Reidemeister move being the "easiest" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reidemeister_move https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reidemeister_move
- kadoban 4y agoYeah that's along the lines of the transformations I was thinking of, though I only considered 2 of those...