[HD Upscale] Not Knot - A guide to mathematical knots in hyperbolic space

This Video has been increased to 1440p from the 480p DVD release using AI upscaling, making this the highest resolution currently available.
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Given it's relationship to Outside In, I figured it was only right that I upload Not Knot as well. I have an original VHS and supplemantary book of Not Knot, if anyone has a legit VHS copy of Outside In please let me know! I opted to use the DVD release for the upscale, mostly because I don't have a VHS player to record with but also because I'm afraid I wouldn't be knowledgable enough to create a high quality rip from an analog source.

My upscale skills are pretty basic, what I've excelled in so far is digging up the highest quality originals to upscale from. I'm getting better at command line arguments for a lab I'm in, so hopefully I'll be able to start upscaling using Joel Hruska's DS9UP methods.

I plan on doing more upscales in the future, if you have any suggestions, please let me know!

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Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space. It proceeds from the world of knots to their complementary spaces -- what's not a knot. Profound theorems of recent mathematics show that most known complements carry the structure of hyperbolic geometry, a geometry in which the sum of three angles of a triangle always is less than 180 degrees.


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What is a Knot? - Numberphile

(   • What is a Knot? - Numberphile  )



David Epstein: Innovative teaching techniques
(http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/forum/e...)

Short review of Not Knot and Supplementary book (requires college access)
(https://www.jstor.org/stable/3619248)

Geometry Center - Original page for Not Knot
(http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/video/NotKnot/)

Image stills with short descriptions
(http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/graphics/pix...)

AK Peters - Original VHS Distribution
(https://web.archive.org/web/200104260...)

Geometry Center Homepage - Find original software, files, descriptions, and animations
(http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/)

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The following resources are not readily available. If you have access to any of these, please let me know.

Supplement to Not Knot

Written by David Epstein and Charlie Gunn, this book offers in-depth explanations to the concepts discussed in the video. I have a physical copy of this book, but I have yet to find a copy of it online. Archive.org doesn't appear to have any listings for it, and all my search results end up with unrelated content or used physical copies. If you are able to find a digital scan of this book online, please let me know and I will add it to the description. I don't imagine this video getting many views, but if there is great enough interest I can contact my university's library and see if I can use one of their professional scanners to upload my copy to share.


---CREDITS---

Written by
David Epstein
Charlie Gunn
Scott Kim
Silvio Levy
Delle Maxwell
Tobias Orloff
John Sullivan
William Thurston

Technical Director
Charlie Gunn

Artistic Director
Delle Maxwell

Modeling, Animation, and Rendering
Tobias Orloff
Delle Maxwell
Stuart Levy
Charlie Gunn

Beginning Titles
Scott Kim

Title Music
Tom Lonardo

Narrator
Chery Hays

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Grateful acknoledgement of software used in movie:

Softimage
Softimage, Inc.
Montreal, Canada

Renderman
Pixar, Inc.
Richmond, CA

Mathematica
Wolfram Research
Champaign, IL

Rayshade
Craig Kolb

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Video Recorded by NCSA

Animation Recording and Segment Editing
Robert Patterson
National Center for Supercomputer Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig

Post Production
KTCA
St. Paul, MN

Video Editor
Jerry Lasko

Audio
Joe Demko

Thanks to
Scott Hayes
Janelle Jurek
Jeff Weeks

Special thanks to
Albert Marden
Director
Geometry Center

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ISBN 0-86720-297-1 (pbk)
ISBN 0-86720-240-8 (video/pbk)
Copyright © 1991 by The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota