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| Keywords: Borromean Rings Illusion.png Created with Persistence of Vision en The Borromean rings This picture is an optical illusion three flat circles cannot actually be connected in this way own Jim belk 2010-03-26 Source This image was created using POV-Ray for Windows version 3 6 The image was rendered to an 1800 x 1800 square using 0 3 anti-aliasing and then cropped and compressed using pngcrush <pre> include colors inc background color White global_settings assumed_gamma 1 0 camera location <0 0 -250000> right <1 0 0> up <0 1 0> look_at <0 0 0> angle 5/10000 light_source <0 200000 -500000> color White area_light <50000 0 0> <0 50000 0> 10 10 / very slow decrease 10 to 2 for experiments / adaptive 3 declare r_tube 0 07; // thickness radius of tube declare sep 0 2; // apparent height seperation between crossing rings declare shiny finish ambient 0 15 diffuse 0 85 brilliance 2 phong 0 25 phong_size 7 5 declare GREEN_TORUS torus 0 6 r_tube // major and minor radius rotate -90 x // so we can see it from the top translate 0 3 <cos pi/6 sin pi/6 0>+<0 1 0> pigment color rgb <0 0 75 0> finish shiny declare RED_TORUS torus 0 6 r_tube // major and minor radius rotate -90 x // so we can see it from the top translate 0 3 <-cos pi/6 sin pi/6 0> +<0 1 0> pigment color rgb <1 0 0> finish shiny declare BLUE_TORUS torus 0 6 r_tube // major and minor radius rotate -90 x // so we can see it from the top translate 0 3 <0 -1 0>+<0 1 0> pigment color rgb <0 0 25 1> finish shiny object RED_TORUS object GREEN_TORUS object BLUE_TORUS intersection object RED_TORUS translate <0 0 -100-sep> cylinder <0 -0 3 0> <0 -0 3 -105> 0 25 intersection object GREEN_TORUS translate <0 0 -100> cylinder <0 -0 3 0> <0 -0 3 -105> 0 25 intersection object BLUE_TORUS translate <0 0 -100-sep> cylinder <-0 58 -0 24 -95> <-0 58 -0 24 -105> 0 25 intersection object RED_TORUS translate <0 0 -100> cylinder <-0 58 -0 24 -95> <-0 58 -0 24 -105> 0 25 intersection object GREEN_TORUS translate <0 0 -100-sep> cylinder <0 58 -0 24 -95> <0 58 -0 24 -105> 0 25 intersection object BLUE_TORUS translate <0 0 -100> cylinder <0 58 -0 24 -95> <0 58 -0 24 -105> 0 25 intersection object GREEN_TORUS translate <0 0 -100-sep> cylinder <-0 29 0 35 -95> <-0 29 0 35 -105> 0 25 intersection object BLUE_TORUS translate <0 0 -100> cylinder <-0 29 0 35 -95> <-0 29 0 35 -105> 0 25 intersection object BLUE_TORUS translate <0 0 -100-sep> cylinder <0 29 0 35 -95> <0 29 0 35 -105> 0 25 intersection object RED_TORUS translate <0 0 -100> cylinder <0 29 0 35 -95> <0 29 0 35 -105> 0 25 intersection object RED_TORUS translate <0 0 -100-sep> cylinder <0 0 85 -95> <0 0 85 -105> 0 25 intersection object GREEN_TORUS translate <0 0 -100> cylinder <0 0 85 -95> <0 0 85 -105> 0 25 plane <0 0 -1> -0 33 pigment color White finish ambient 0 35 diffuse 0 65 </pre> Knots and links on white background Impossible objects Images with Povray source code Borromean rings Tubular knots and links Blue green red Circular Borromean rings 3 component links 6 crossing number knots and links Alternating knots and links 9 stick number knots and links | ||||
