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Borromean Rings Complement I've watched the famous Not Knot video about complements of knots and links many times over the years. My dad actually brought it home one day when I was in high school in the mid-90s, at which point it seemed so "out there" that a friend and I found it comical. Given that beginning, it's funny how much I've come to connect with it. I revisited it again this weekend. I figured attempting to draw the video's finale image myself would lead to fun insights, and the exercise did not disappoint. So here is a pannable image of what Not Knot calls the "hyperbolic structure of the link complement" for the Borromean rings. It's a honeycomb of rhombic dodecahedra, each with 6 ideal vertices and 8 finite vertices. If you stare out it for a bit, you will notice ortho-sticks , i.e. a set of 3 mutually orthogonal axes. These triplets of infinitely long lines connect up with each other at the ideal points to build up the entir...

{4,3,∞} Domains This is one way to picture the simplex domains of the {4,3,∞} reflection group. To understand the meaning of {4,3,∞}, see the paper Visualizing Hyperbolic Honeycombs . https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02851 The domains are colored light/dark based on their depth mod 2 in domain adjacency graph (also described in the paper). If the domains were drawn filled, we would instead see coloring on the surface of a ball, but I trimmed them by growing spheres that cut into each simplex from its 4 vertices. https://youtu.be/vUBNXVfZlkA

Knotted Surfaces I enjoyed watching this series just now (about an hour spread over 4 videos). Great use of dimensional analogy, and I finally have a nice mental picture of a knotted sphere. Originally shared by Arnaud Chéritat Ester Dalvit just released on YouTube a series of videos about knots in 4D. A realization of high quality and excellent explanations. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyxHTRWELFBr9TP8jx400bPGP-ECsBufz