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platonic_tangles

This repository hosts Supporting Information for the paper by S.T. Hyde and M.E. Evans, "Symmetric tangled Platonic polyhedra", PNAS (December) 2021. The data structure is explained in the file "SI_key.pdf" which includes a Table listing numbers of components of polyhedral 2fz tangles wound on 6 polytori, whose skeletons are the five Platonic polyhedra plus the theta_3 polyhedron 3D .ply files for simpler tangles are collected in the folder "ply_files". The data are sorted into subfolders for each of the six polyhedra.