Construction of sphere-filling ropes

The left movie shows the construction of $\beta^{6,i}, i=0,1,2,3,4,5,6$ . Each of the curves has a thickness $\Theta_6=\sin\frac{\pi}{2\cdot6}$ . The second and fifth curve are the only two one-component, closed, length maximizing curves of that thickness on the two-sphere. The second curve is blown up, to show, that the curve indeed fills the whole sphere. The other curves have more than one component but are as well sphere filling.

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On sphere-filling ropes,
What are the longest ropes on the unit sphere?.

Download the movie (License cc-by-sa-3.0): beta_6_i.mp4
Also availabe as 3D-model.
Rendered with POV-Ray.

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