Not Knot 

These videos make me feel like a caveman accessing forbidden cosmic knowledge

"To understand knots, we first need to talk about parallel universes"

This feels like a spiritual successor to "how to turn a sphere inside out".

I've never seen something so educational that I was not able to learn anything from

2:20 the cat screaming as it falls into space gets me every time

I see why CG was initially seen as nothing more than something for mathematicians and computer scientists/engineers, it opened up a lot of possibilities and allowed complex topology to be visualized rather than just explained in painful levels of detail

First hour of a JRPG: "Not" all "knots" are really knots haha ;) Last hour of a JRPG: As the vertices of infinity pass behind our eyes from inside the rhombic dodecahedron, the link has become infinitely far away.

Fun fact: This is a canonical part of the original lovecraft lore on how many eldritch beings work/perceive/traverse reality. The city the great old ones live in under the sea for instance, is made of 4th dimensionally hyperbolic geometry. There's even creatures that specifically use abstract spacial geometry to teleport across vast multidimensional distances, fir nothing more than primitive hunting techniques.

Started at geometry and ended in a hallucinating sanctuary 😢 But it was super interesting. Thanks a lot for making these.

I imagine this is what it’s like to trip on psychedelics without the actual psychedelics

This is the video equivalent of psychedelic mushrooms. I love these films, thank you for making them available

I now understand that the point of a cone is called a cone point, I learnt so much

Forget modern day CGI and horror, THIS 10:22 is what I’ll be seeing in my nightmares.

14:10 I remember this sequence being included in the computer graphics compilation called Beyond The Minds Eye in 1992. It was full of cutting edge CGI at the time

This was the cutting edge of sound design and 3D visual effects.

y'all were doin some pretty amazing stuff at the geometry centre back in the 90s damn

I've watched this 4 times now ... I'll understand it one day

This is the stuff the show you before sending you into areas with non-euclidian geometry

i watched one video explaining how to turn a sphere inside out and now youtube keeps recommending these videos lmao

these videos are my go-to for house party visuals. i love subconsciously bombarding my high friends with topology concepts.

CAN YOU TIE A KNOT? "I CANNOT" YOU CAN KNOT? "I CAN NOT KNOT" NOT KNOT? "WHOS THERE?"

I loves this, even though I could not follow most of it. I have a built-in difficulty in visualizing spacial relationships and especially knots. But the second half when it went into hyperbolic space rattled my brain, it was superb. And, I love the voice of the narrator, Chery Hays. Incredibly soothing.

I miss these old school science videos

Clicked for the knots, stayed for the fractals

When you knot but she keep rotating

whoa this must be cutting edge computer graphics back in the day

I'll never be able to tie my shoelace the same ever again

Damn, mathematicians be studying some pretty trippy shit.

I immediately recognized this from the thumbnail as footage that was used in one of the 'Mind's Eye' videos. Also recalled the title, 'Not Knot' from the credits of that video. Crazy to semi-randomly see the source all these decades later.

1:49 Sometimes it's easier to understand something by looking at what it's knot!

This feels like waking up in a world where everyone and everything are complicated and abstract shapes and your only purpose is to understand other shapes

*sees title* “Who’s there?”

my goal is to one day take shrooms and begin watching this video when i feel that they have started kicking in

Mathematicians out here asking the real questions: “when is a knot not a knot?”

A blessing for understanding the borromean connection

I'll be sure to use this information in my day-to-day life, just like I do with black hole physics.

2:20 THAT NOISE!!!! THEY SENT THAT CAT TO ROBOT HELL!!!

I feel as if these videos are Cosmic Knowledge imparted to me by Aliens but without context. And they expect me to just understand it and pass knowledge on to the lizard-men before humanity dies out.

These are oddly soothing for my anxiety and panic attacks. I hope you add more.

This basically went from knot tying to geometry to the occult

Literally sacred geometry and fractals at the end

The knot knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t, by subtracting where it isn’t, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation.

"Sometimes it's easier to understand something by looking at what it's not" I see what you did there movie.

Holy crap my 90s brain is lighting up like a Christmas tree.

There's a disco dance music CD with this video as a background. I uses to watch that on repeat when I was a child.

Thanks. I really, really want to experience higher dimensions in VR. I mean, forget games. I can't imagine how cool it would be to study n-dimensional objects by actually walking around inside them. Now that's 21st century geometry. tavi.

I am so high rn. i feel like I've unlocked a part of my brain that i never knew i had

12:22 is featured in Beyond the Mind's Eye. Glad to have found the origin.

I LOVE THESE. THANK YOU!!!❤

Finally the algorithm is blessing others videos from the same channel of the best classic

"I like your funny words magic man"

Dang, did they just hit me with the buster charge sound from megaman x 4 at 1:34

12:27 this is where code parade probably got inspiration for the final level in hyperbolica

Who's there?

I clicked on this thinking it was RU-vid recommending me some darkcore, techno, trance banger mix:):

This video inspired me to an act of poetry :) I Know That I Know Knotting A dot in a knot, Forms a cord or a line. Which when knotted thrice, Chords the song of space and time. Not a knot: nothingness entwined, Knotting a knot? Impossibility defined. As I align these dotted words I see, On temporal canvas, mine and free. A million quanta, shimmering bright, Silent motion, shaping cosmic flight. Do I truly grasp knotting's might? A wonder to ponder, where no chords resound. Naught but the soul, in silence found.

I needed a "fasten your seat belt" before 12:21

Impressive cgi in 1991

Simplistic and straight to the point. They don't make em like this anymore (rarely, very rarely we'll find one)

Gotta like how this video is 16:18, the golden ratio.

Very good video. For those who are interested in playing in hyperbolic spaces, I recommend the game Hyperbolica.

Random thought: if the complement of your self is everything you are not, then every time you move your body, your complement also shifts, meaning you are affecting the shape of everything you are not as well-making us kind of strangely connected to the entirety of the rest of the universe. However, like unraveling a knot, unraveling your self leads to a mathematical equivalent no matter what pose it is currently taking. So, when moving, have we really changed anything at all? Or just shifted around some molecules while everything is fundamentally unchanged, forever actually. Does time even exist if you consider the unchanging nature of everything in this way?

some say Music is the Universal language, Music is Sound wrapped in Mathematics. Mathematics is the Universal Language, the Numbers don't lie, only the people trying to manipulate them do, but the Numbers always work out, they will Never Lie.

this feels like a fever dream

i love these kinds of videos

Excellent sound effects, great job for understanding world around us.❤

my earphone's knot is something else that i cant explain

I'm glad she reminded us what the question was @6:42 because tbh I had totally forgotten how we got here on coney island

The places the sound effects are pulled from are nutty, one of them was the MegaMan X charge sound

The song at the end low-key slaps

So quality content in 90s

This Channel gets recommended to me ONLY around 1am or generally late hours! I remember their other video ,,inside out" with, smth like a donut on thumbnail and it too was recommended to me in the middle of the night!

Instructions unclear, became a furry.

13:50 i felt vertigo and fear. beautiful

This was knot what I expected to see in my recommendations, but yet, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thank you for this wonderful video

Why did you make me feel infinity for .001 second in those demonstrations? Its 1pm, I wasn't ready!!!

This has the same energy as “how to turn a sphere inside out” and “the shape of space”

If it wasn't for the fact that I checked the uploader , I would have expected Hugbees to starr talking at some point of the video

This is my favorite video now. I don't know why i couldn't stop watching

0:12 WHO POSSESSED MY SHOE

14:26 Camera casually traveling an infinite distance several times over.

these videos were the coolest ever

Normal people: very cool and informative Furries: *snicker giggle snicker*

1:42 O L Y M P I C S

OK, I understood 'Outside In', and 'the Shape of Space' mostly made sense, but this one just blew the equation wide open. I've got some thinking to do.

This is hands down the most interesting video i have ever watched, but i couldnt tell you a thing about what i learned!

I was expecting the usual comedy but this was great too:p

Holy of Holies. This is some very 'holy' stuff. I have mystical experiences, and when I watch this I go into trance. Very powerful stuff here! I can't believe the animator. You guys are onto some awesome stuff!!

The Hyperbolic space portion of the video reminds me of the film "Beyond the Minds Eye", one of my favorite films as a kid.

Most sane slipknot fan

I have no idea what you’re talking about queen, but slay on.

thanks for the tour. it was informative.

This is unbelievably cool. Watching it felt like surfing along a wave of conceptual space

God I love tool

what the fuck. this has destroyed my brain. i love it i feel like this is what it feels like going through a black hole

Aw hell yeah! Another one of these!

I need to watch this a dozen times

Such an excellent production! Thank you for sharing!!!

The old cgi and sound effects takes me back to my childhood. It’s so off putting and nostalgic it’s weird. Like when your computer showed those bouncing balls on screen saver mode in the early 2000s with the big white square monitor. Makes me feel like fat keys clacking on a keyboard. Does anyone else know what I’m saying?