Hyperbolic Knot Complements

Thurston (1982): Every knot complement is either hyperbolic, Seifert-fibered, or a torus knot. The complement S³\K admits a complete hyperbolic metric of finite volume — computable via SnapPy.

Visualizing the Poincaré disk model of ℍ³ cross-sections. Colors encode curvature flow.

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