Hello everyone,
The last week we focused on extending the current functionality to links. That involved a lot of refactoring the code. The methods have become more general and work for links. Some of the issues like naming of the methods and storing once a form of representation is calculated are some of the few which remain to be worked upon. This has been a great learning curve for me. Many things were edited which includes addition of the method orientation which gives the signs of the crossings. That was really helpful in formulating the other structures. There was one other issue in the vogel move, this had a case where the pulling of the higher strand onto the lower one did not lead to a generalization on constructing the new crossings. The issue was resolved as we looked upto the strands in the regions and decided how the crossings would be generated. If the strands were positive, one kind of crossing were obtained and if the strands were negative the other crossings were obtained. I had this thought but I was not sure whether it would work for all cases, Miguel chipped in and gave me the idea in a more concrete setting. So that set the method vogel move up. The rest was revamped and a lot of cleaning has been taking place in the code to remove the stuff which is not necessary. Hope we have most of the functionality by the end. That’s it from me. Thanks for reading through and here is the latest pull request.
https://github.com/miguelmarco/sage/pull/13
