I came to this work in 1995, after an image Lynnclaire Dennis sent to the Electronic Visualisation Laboratory at the University of Illinois was passed on to me by colleagues. The picture they sent to my office was of a curiously geometric, non-alternating spherical version of the Trefoil knot.
Figure II.1A is a view of the usual trefoil knot, illustrated in such a way that one can imagine it going around a torus twice in one direction and thrice in the other winding direction on that torus. The central illustration is a view of the trefoil that is moving in the direction of the Mereon geometry. When I say, ‘another view of the Trefoil’, what is meant is that the tubular curve is a change made in the first graphic and reshaped without breaking the curve, cutting it or doing anything discontinuous. Figure II.1B shows how the story became more complex with the knot found in the Mereon geometry woven in relation to polyhedra. Throughout this book, we will show how the Mereon Trefoil weaves on the surface of all polyhedra.