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Introduction This is a variant of a similar past problem: draw something interesting, using a sequence of joined straight line segments, without ever lifting your pen. Or in this case, with one con…

Introduction This is a variant of a similar past problem : draw something interesting, using a sequence of joined straight line segments, without ever lifting your pen. Or in this case, with one continuous thread. As far as I can tell, the first realization of this particular idea was in 2016, when artist Petros Vrellis [1] arranged 200 pins evenly spaced around a 28-inch-diameter circular rim, and wound kilometers of thread stretched in straight line chords from one pin to the next, in a carefully determined order, to yield an image similar to the one shown below (created by me). My implement

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