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11,218 dots. One knot.

Every dot pushes the others away, and every link pulls its two ends together like a rubber band. Nobody plans the layout, yet the knot opens into circles of friends.
In daily life: maps of social networks, and how search engines see which websites belong together.

Algorithm Series · No. 5.
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