File:Trefoil-non-3-symm.png

Trefoil knot without visible three-fold structure.

To see that this is topologically equivalent to the more usual visual forms of the trefoil knot, look at Image:Trefoil-non-3-symm-flip demonstration.png:

Self-made, declared to be in public domain, generated from the following PostScript source code:

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