Nevermind, there was no bug in knotscape, I just forgot to read the 
tutorial. My apologies.

On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:14:39 AM UTC-5, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> On 2014-03-05, Jason Suagee <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >   
> > 
> > I attempted to get knotscape working, but the program hung when I 
> clicked 
> > on one of the menu buttons (this might be an issue with Tcl or Tk). I 
> was 
> > able to check out the link drawing utility linkscape, so I have a good 
> idea 
> > of how that works. Since knotscape hung I don't know how it plots a 
> knot, 
> > is it a 3D representation (similar to that of say Mathematica). In order 
> to 
> > get knotscape to work with my linux distro I would probably have to 
> > downgrade Tcl and Tk to an older version, which I don't particularly 
> want 
> > to get into right now. 
>
> Would you mind providing more details on what exactly goes wrong, with 
> Tcl/Tk vesrions involved? (perhaps by opneing an issue on the github 
> repo https://github.com/dimpase/knotscap) 
>
> [...] 
> > 
> >  While I had originally conceived of something 2D, Alex gave me the 
> > impression that what he would like would be more useful. So I thought a 
> bit 
> > about how his idea might be made to work: 
> > 
> > 
> >  It would be pretty hard to do. You could plot the knot using OpenGL, or 
> > WebGL since most people use Sage through the notebook interface which 
> runs 
> > on a browser. 
>
> nowadays these things are normally done using higher level interfaces to 
> WebGL, 
> such as tree.js 
>
>
>

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