picture by Mark Lengowski of Cabletron Borromean Ring Links Here are some links to pages about Borromean rings.
This is not intended to be a complete list people are apparently rather industrious by nature, at least when it comes to Borromean rings, and they seem to have been getting rendered a plenty.
This is just a list of the highlights from my browsings for Borromean rings in early 1998, in no particular order.
Ned Seeman builds Borromean rings out of DNA in his lab. A nice, artistic ray-traced picture of a block of glass with the Borromian rings missing (name that movie) John Robinson makes beautiful real-life Borromean rings, thanks to his admirable sponsors: - a square, a bent triangle, and a bent circle
(no, those aren't his sponsors!) three large wood squares three rhombi three triangles also shown on that page are borromean triangles in a worrisome 9th century scandinavian rune... a completely unrelated web page also mentioned this, saying that: There is another interesting historical context in which the rings arise. The diagram was found in picture-stones on Gotland, an island in the Baltic sea off the southeast coast of Sweden. These are dated around the ninth century and are thought to tell tales from the Norse myths. To the Norse people of Scandinavia, a drawing of the Borromean rings using triangles is known as "Odin's triangle" or the "Walknot" (or "valknut" the knot of the slain). The symbol was also carved on the bedposts used in their burials at sea. There is a rumor that a fellow by the name of George Odom has also made Borromean sculptures, but I couldn't find anything more out about that. | |
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