Five strand straight braid with code

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I did a three strand braid earlier, but I wanted to experiment with higher orders. It was quite a bit harder to work out. I have included the .scad code so that anyone interested can generate similar braids. faces=20; step=5; for(th=[0:step:360]) { translate([th/PI,20*sin(th ),wave((th+168 )%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces); translate([th/PI,20*sin(th+72 ),wave((th+168+72 )%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces); translate([th/PI,20*sin(th+144),wave((th+168+144)%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces); translate([th/PI,20*sin(th+216),wave((th+168+216)%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces); translate([th/PI,20*sin(th+288),wave((th+168+288)%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces); } function wave(th)=(((((((1.53850006563052E-16*th-1.27387805434208E-13)*th+4.34669346542468E-11)*th-7.88147244501425E-9)*th+ 8.16830636022657E-7)*th-4.84392712381305E-5)*th+1.54722865226176E-3)*th-2.17013888888711E-2)*th*th+1;