knotplot: Plotting of knots

In knotR: Knot Diagrams using Bezier Curves

Plotting of knots

Description

Routines to plot projections of knots with a wide range of user-settable options

Usage

knotplot(x, ou, gapwidth=1, n=100, lwd=8, add=FALSE, ...)
knotplot_old(x, ou, gap=20, n=100, lwd=8, add=FALSE, ...)
knotplot2(x, rainbow=FALSE, seg=FALSE, text=FALSE, cross=FALSE, ink=FALSE,
                node=FALSE, width=TRUE, all=FALSE, n=100, circ=1000,
                lwd=8, add=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x	Description of a knot, coerced to a controlpoints object and a minobj object
rainbow, seg, text, cross, ink, node, all, width, circ	Variables controlling sundry knotplot2() features; see details
ou	An overunder object, useful if overunder information not included in argument x
gap, gapwidth	Variables controlling visual representation of strand crossings; see details
n	Number of points on each Bezier curve
lwd	Width of line to use
add	Boolean, with default FALSE meaning to set up a new plot, and TRUE meaning to just add points and lines to an existing plot
...	Further arguments, passed to plot() and points()

Details

Function knotplot() is useful for production-quality plotting of knots with crossings indicated by the understrand having a gap; function knotplot2() is more useful for development. Function knotplot_old() is included for backward compatibility and is possibly more robust than knotplot().

Function knotplot() works by setting a suitable length of the understrand to NA which results in it not being plotted.

For knotplot():

• overunderobj; A two-column matrix indicating the sense of the crossing. Each row corresponds to a crossing; the first entry is the segment number of the overstrand, and the second is the understrand

• gapwidth; the width of the gap, measured in units of width of the string

For knotplot2():

• rainbow; use rainbow colouring for the segments

• seg; plot the Bezier nodes and handles. The positions of the nodes and handles are obtained from an object of class controlpoints.

• text; include the segment number on the segment

• cross; label the crossings

• ink; label the nodes with their inkscape numbering

• width; show the bending strain energy

The gap argument of knotplot_old() is a the same as the gapwidth argument of knotplot() but gap is measured in the same units as the plot().

Author(s)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Examples

knotplot(k5_1)

knotplot2(k6_1,text=TRUE,seg=TRUE,lwd=1)

knotR documentation built on June 22, 2024, 6:56 p.m.