Equilateral stick knots: 5_1 and 5_2

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The 5_1 and 5_2 knots built using using the minimum number of equal length sticks. These knots were created by Aidan Aengus Kitchen, Arun Ghosh, and Alex Wolff (students in Math 383D Knot Theory Spring 2023). A description of how these knots were built can be found here: https://mathvis.academic.wlu.edu/2023/05/17/modeling-and-3d-printing-equilateral-stick-knots/ The data for the vertices of these knots is by Thomas D. Eddy: stick-knot-gen, efficiently generate and classify random stick knots in confinement https://github.com/thomaseddy/stick-knot-gen/tree/master/stick_number/mseq_knots from this paper: Thomas D. Eddy and Clayton Shonkwiler. New stick number bounds from random sampling of confined polygons. Experimental Mathematics 31 (2022), no. 4, 1373–1395.