trefoil_data: Trefoil Knot

In jlmelville/snedata: SNE Simulation Dataset Functions

Trefoil Knot

Description

Points sampled from a trefoil knot shape, from "How to Use t-SNE Effectively".

Usage

trefoil_data(n)

Arguments

n	Number of points to sample.

Details

Creates a 3D dataset where points are uniformly sampled from a trefoil knot. Points are colored based on mapping the angle parameter values used to generate the knot coordinates to a rainbow color scheme.

Value

Data frame with coordinates in the x, y, z columns, and color in the color column.

References

http://distill.pub/2016/misread-tsne/

See Also

Other distill functions: circle_data(), cube_data(), gaussian_data(), grid_data(), link_data(), long_cluster_data(), long_gaussian_data(), ortho_curve(), random_circle_cluster_data(), random_circle_data(), random_jump(), random_walk(), simplex_data(), subset_clusters_data(), three_clusters_data(), two_clusters_data(), two_different_clusters_data(), unlink_data()

Examples

df <- trefoil_data(n = 50)

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