Symmetric Energy Pictures

The notion of deriving a knot energy by viewing a knot as a radiating tube is due to Gregory Buck of Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. This energy, the symmetric energy has been extensively studied by Buck together with Jonathan Simon from The University of Iowa, and myself. This page is a collection of images visualizing the symmetric energy.

There is also a video collection (MPEG) of knot relaxations using the SE.

26ringsA 608 by 608 pixels 80 kByte	26ringsB 608 by 608 pixels 104 kByte	26ringsC 608 by 608 pixels 112 kByte	26ringsD 608 by 608 pixels 81 kByte	26ringsE 608 by 608 pixels 59 kByte
2jul98a 1024 by 1024 pixels 182 kByte	30jun98 1024 by 1024 pixels 184 kByte	3apr96 608 by 608 pixels 56 kByte	3jun98a 1024 by 1024 pixels 218 kByte	3jun98b 1024 by 1024 pixels 173 kByte
6chain 608 by 608 pixels 29 kByte	6may98a 1024 by 1024 pixels 196 kByte	7may98a 1024 by 1024 pixels 231 kByte	7strings 608 by 608 pixels 56 kByte	8.3.1ms 608 by 608 pixels 31 kByte
9.2.49ms-sw 608 by 608 pixels 32 kByte	9.2.49ms 608 by 608 pixels 30 kByte	9.3.11ms 608 by 608 pixels 28 kByte	9.3.18ms 608 by 608 pixels 26 kByte	9.3.20ms 608 by 608 pixels 25 kByte
9.42cable 608 by 608 pixels 102 kByte	Ash2445 608 by 608 pixels 44 kByte	Ash2445b 608 by 608 pixels 49 kByte	Ashley2462 608 by 608 pixels 84 kByte	BorrRing 608 by 608 pixels 29 kByte
BorrRingGlo 608 by 608 pixels 33 kByte	ComplexHopf 608 by 608 pixels 58 kByte	HOwlA 760 by 760 pixels 219 kByte	Hopf-mcol 608 by 608 pixels 18 kByte	HopfOct 608 by 608 pixels 64 kByte
Infinity 608 by 608 pixels 16 kByte	K-with-tangle 608 by 608 pixels 56 kByte	Knots 608 by 608 pixels 40 kByte	LigSeth0 555 by 555 pixels 26 kByte	OpenSquare 608 by 608 pixels 20 kByte
Page139d 608 by 608 pixels 27 kByte	Penrose6 608 by 608 pixels 63 kByte	Rings 608 by 608 pixels 40 kByte	SK-full 1280 by 1024 pixels 59 kByte	SK-mcol 608 by 608 pixels 23 kByte
SK 608 by 608 pixels 25 kByte	SKGlo 608 by 608 pixels 22 kByte	SKalt 608 by 608 pixels 37 kByte	SteamAsh 900 by 900 pixels 124 kByte	SteamBorrA 900 by 900 pixels 100 kByte
StickBorr 608 by 608 pixels 55 kByte	SwirledUnknot 608 by 608 pixels 103 kByte	SwirledUnknotB 608 by 608 pixels 67 kByte	SwirledUnknotC 608 by 608 pixels 49 kByte	TaitAD 608 by 608 pixels 40 kByte
TaitAD2 608 by 608 pixels 105 kByte	TangledMess 608 by 608 pixels 46 kByte	Torus3-12 608 by 608 pixels 67 kByte	TrueLoversKnot 555 by 555 pixels 19 kByte	TunnelA 608 by 608 pixels 104 kByte
Whitehead 608 by 608 pixels 20 kByte	aBcD-to-5th 608 by 608 pixels 52 kByte	chain12 608 by 608 pixels 87 kByte	swirly 555 by 555 pixels 29 kByte	tor5-9 555 by 555 pixels 27 kByte