Understand the topology of this 4-dimensional data.

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Now I have a set of 4 dimensional data points.

If I project them onto the first and second dimension, they look like figure 1. Figure 1: data projected to 1st and 2nd dimension

If I project them onto the third and forth dimension, they look like figure 2. Figure 2: data projected to 3rd and 4th dimension

(Note that same color indicates same data point.)

I wonder if there is any known topology structure that fits the data. I think the data is homeomorphic to the unit circle S1 but I am not familiar with (differential) topology.

The data and visualization code is available here if anyone is interested.


Update 1: This figure shows some of the combination of dimensions for better understanding the structure. Figure 3


Update 2: Thanks to @AndrewD.Hwang. I plot the tracjectory $0.2(cos(2t+θ_0),sin(2t+θ_0),sint,−cost)$, where $θ_0=7/4\pi$ and $t\in[0,2\pi]$. This equation almost fits the data!! Figure 4