This never-ending knot, animated by Kenneth Baker, was made by concatenating a sequence of smaller tangles that look like this:
A quarter-turn is applied when passing from one copy of this tangle to the next in the infinite sequence. Here’s another view:
Sketches of Topology is an amazing blog for visuals like these, and I will probably crib from it frequently.
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