"Groundbreaking Discovery: Countless Transformable Knots Unveiled by Research Team"
Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne have discovered thousands of new transformable knots, including three novel shapes that the figure-eight knot can assume. Using a computational pipeline that combines randomized spatial sampling and physics simulation, the team identified new geometric and topological patterns in elastic knots. These findings have implications for the design of self-deployable structures and the development of new metamaterials. The research opens up potential new directions for studying complex ensembles of knotted systems.