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  1. With @JPQ we found this genus-0 surface with three boundary components: a figure-8 knot, and two trefoils (one left-handed and the other right-handed). It turns out that such a surface exists for any three knots and we wrote a paper about it:

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.12729

    The three illustrations were done using crochet, 3D-printing, and Inkscape.

    #math #knots #crochet #3Dprint #inkscape