[pstricks] How to do Braids with ps-tricks

[Herbert Voss]

Am 26.04.2010 19:02, schrieb Michael Sharpe:
> 
> On Apr 26, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Felix Hoffmann wrote:
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>> I am working on a diploma thesis in pure maths, which will need to display some braids (not the ones, which are already implemented in xyPic). They should look like that:
>>
>> o    o     o
>> |     |      |
>> |     |      |
>>  \  /        |
>>   x         |
>> /   \        |
>> |      |       |
>> o    o     o
>>
>> But cool and not like the one I drew. I am always amazed from the things, that are possible with ps-tricks, I guess that there is a solution, but I don't know it yet. Of course it should be displayable which part of the braid is on top of the other and vice versa. Most appreciated would be a version, where I only tell the command which braid parts to change in what manner.
> 
> You could start with something like

and have a look at pst-knot

Herbert