Use Your Browser's Back Button to Return to Previous Page      OR     Return to Arches If you're stuck in a browser frame - click here to view this same page in Quantonics! Arches for our Quantonics Web Site Starting 1Jan2001 Prototype 01 By Doug Renselle 15Dec1999 Not bad for a 241kb *.GIF, eh? Our *.BMP is almost four megabytes! And our Povray source code is only 2.1kb! Easy to code, but huge bitmap. Yes, our current Quantonics Arches will only be on our top page for one year! Year 2000, that is! (Those of you familiar with 1's and 2's complement arithmetic understand zero's base two duplicitous, +,- nonuniqueness. Too, we recognize some disagreement among 'pundits' whether 2000 or 2001 is Millennium III's first year.) This is a stretched toroid. Its inner cylinder is opaque gold. Its outer cylinder and half-torus end pieces are transparent glass. Use Povray to make your own model like this, in less than an hour. Povray is free, and very powerful. Povray's transparency and ray refraction/reflection algorithms are simply superb! Future prototype derivatives of this will cut pie sections out of this torus. Vertical ribbons will then be half-twisted for a Mobius conversion of our torus, and it will appear as a circular arrangement of Mobius arches, all sharing a common Quality-unified surface. As you can see we have quite a challenge ahead. We are giving ourselves a one-year head start. ©Quantonics, Inc., 1999-2006 — Rev. 15Dec2001  PDR — Created 13Jan2000  PDR (15Dec2001 rev - Add top of page frame-breaker.) Use Your Browser's Back Button to Return to Previous Page      OR     Return to Arches