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Linked Rings

Linked rings: 8 regular pentagons made of square bars, each at its own angle and turning slowly, are scattered through a ball so that they link through one another; the scene is ray-marched, the nearest bar gives each hit its colour round the rainbow, and the flat faces of the bars are lit from a key light and a fill.

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The mathematics

  • The distance to a square bar is the largest of the absolute offsets in its two cross-section directions and beyond its ends, the max-norm, which is never larger than the true distance, so the march can never overshoot a bar.

In art

  • Colour wheels in rainbow order have been used to organise colour since Newton drew his in 1704.

Made with Linked rings.

Linked rings

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