Keywords: BorromeanRings-Trinity.png The Borromean rings as a symbol of the Christian Trinity Drawn from scratch not scanned based on an illustration in a 13th-century French manuscript found at Chartres as reproduced in Didron's book Christian Iconography 1843 TRINITAS trinity is around the edge and UNITAS unity in the center see external link http //www liv ac uk/~spmr02/rings/trinity html Generated by means of the following PostScript code note that this program references the Zapf Chancery Medium Italic font which is part of the Basic 35 Postscript fonts but not the Basic 14 <pre> /y 240 120 3 sqrt mul sub def /d1 gsave 30 setlinewidth 0 setgray stroke grestore stroke def /d2 0 setgray 5 setlinewidth -37 540 280 260 290 arc 158 641736 243 625292 105 268881 161 581249 206 581249 arc 3 90 123 60 120 arc -153 820991 197 648753 95 327902 -0 6778395 44 3221605 arc closepath gsave 1 setgray fill grestore stroke 120 rotate 37 540 280 250 280 arc 153 820991 197 648753 95 327902 135 67784 180 67784 arc -3 90 123 60 120 arc -158 641736 243 625292 105 268881 -26 581249 18 418751 arc closepath gsave 1 setgray fill grestore stroke def /bx newpath ulx uly 5 270 0 arcn ulx uly hit sub 5 0 -270 arcn ulx wid add uly hit sub 5 90 180 arcn ulx wid add uly 5 180 -90 arcn closepath stroke def 1 setlinejoin 77 320 translate 0 75 dup scale 18 setlinewidth 1 setgray 306 240 240 0 360 closepath arc d1 gsave 306 240 translate 90 rotate d2 grestore 186 y 240 0 360 arc closepath d1 gsave 186 y translate -150 rotate d2 grestore 426 y 240 0 360 arc closepath d1 gsave 426 y translate -30 rotate d2 grestore 30 setlinewidth 0 setgray 306 240 240 -10 9 arc stroke 306 240 240 231 250 arc stroke 18 setlinewidth 1 setgray 306 240 240 -11 10 arc stroke 306 240 240 230 251 arc stroke 0 setgray /ZapfChancery-MediumItalic84 0 -8 84 0 0selectfont -10 -9 moveto t show 3 5 0 rmoveto r show 6 5 0 rmoveto i show 2 5 rmoveto - show 265 350 moveto n show 5 0 rmoveto i show 2 5 rmoveto - show 515 -8 moveto t show 3 0 rmoveto a show 7 0 rmoveto s show/ZapfChancery-MediumItalic63 0 -6 72 0 0 selectfont 236 77 5 moveto 1 5 0 unita ashow 3 0 rmoveto s show 3 setlinewidth /ulx -16 def/uly 54 5 def/wid 126 def/hit 77 def bx /ulx 256 def/uly 413 5 def/wid 111 def/hit 77 def bx /ulx 509 def/uly 46 def/wid 119 def/hit 67 5 def bx showpage EOF</pre> 2005 AnonMoos BorromeanRings-Trinity svg Borromean rings Images with PostScript source code Circular Borromean rings 3 component links 6 crossing number knots and links Alternating knots and links 9 stick number knots and links |