General ⇒ Knot diagrams

[charlgarrett]

Hi, im doing a project on knot theory and having trouble finding good ways to put diagrams of knots into TeXnicCenter. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi charlgarrett,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
You could use PSTricks, here is a knots example.
Maybe pgf/TikZ could be useful too. Here is an example gallery.

Stefan

[gustav]

You can also use XYPic, see http://lf.starlogik.de/XYPic-Knot-Intro/index.html for a tutorial.

However I think the easiest will be to produce the diagrams in any vector drawing program and then export it in a format that you can include in your tex file via the graphicx package. For a detailed description of how to draw know diagrams using a vector drawing program see http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Ar ... rking.html

Of course you can also look into custom knot drawing programs, like Knot 3D for example (http://www.abbott.demon.co.uk/knots.html#programs).

All of the above is wisdom gained from a few minutes of googling. You will probably find better answers.