We discuss the production of ortho-projection graphs from alternating knot diagrams, and introduce a more general construction of such graphs from "splittings" of closed, nonorientable surfaces. As our main result, we prove that this new topological construction generates all ortho-projection graphs. We present a minimal example of an orthoprojection graph that does not arise from a knot diagram, and provide a surface-splitting that realizes this graph.
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Topological realizations of ortho-projection graphs