Ornamental depictions of links with 12 crossings
Some decorative depictions of links with 12 crossings :
- I) With two component
- a) Components are loops
Two interlaced open hexagrams
Quasi-Celtic two-loop link
Two loops
Two loops
Two-loop link
Four-fold looping interlaced with circle (two-loop link)
Mongolian ornament, equivalent to preceding
Equivalent to preceding
Sculpture of preceding
Tiling ; equivalent to preceding
Sicilian plate, also equivalent
One crossing of K13a1345 eliminated, converting from knot to link...
- b) One component is knoted
Two mutually-interlaced triquetras
Trefoil interlinked with smaller trefoil
Two interlinked trefoils
Two interlinked trefoils inside rectangle
Sum of two trefoils linked with a loop
- II) With three components
3-loop link in the form of a quasi-Celtic knot
Same link in this work of the Mexican artist Daniela Azuela
Ca. 1000 A.D. runestone, equivalent to preceding
Equivalent link in square form
(alternate version)
Three-component Brunnian link
More ornate Brunnian link depiction
Three-loop link with three L4a1 configurations
Three-loop link
Triangle and two circles
Three loops symmetric
Three loops symmetric
Two trefoils and one loop
- III) With four loops
Four linked squares (alternated)
Variant
Variant with circles
Variant with rectangles as an impossible object
Variant on the sphere ; the crossings are the vertices of the cuboctahedron
Four loops (Borromean + triangle)
Basilica of Saint Mary Major (not alternated)
- IV) With six loops
Six rings
Decoration equivalent to a circle of six interlinked loops
For ornamental depictions of knots with 12 crossings, see K12a477, K12a503, K12a541, K12a561, K12a975, K12a991, K12a1019, K12a1210, K12n242, and (non-prime) Image:Trefoil-of-trefoils.png, Image:Celtic-knot-insquare-green-transparentbg.png, Image:Three-figure8-knot triang1.png, and Image:Three-figure8-knot triang2.png.
