Continuing my meditation on "user-friendly", I tried to pump more life into Quadrays by using them to ray-trace graphene-like imagery.
Some thinkers project a coming Age of Carbon, given all the nano stuff we've learned since the discovery of buckminsterfullerene. Graphene, surprisingly, is a relative latecomer. We already knew "pencil lead" was really graphite that rubbed off in layers. An individual sheet: that wasn't so much the focus. Diamond was another allotrope.
Then Bf came along (C60) and a sudden interest in soccer ball imagery, on which I later capitalized using hash tag HP4E ("hexapents for everyone"). Nanotubes would maybe turn out to be good for something. Separating them into isomers was a technological challenge. Then came graphene.
However, from another angle, we've been in an Age of Carbon for quite some time now, in that we understand polymer chemistry, oil refining, all manner of things carbon. As a life form, we're all about hydrocarbons.
I chauffeured again today, driving my passenger to Portland Nursery. On the way, we rescued an abandoned coffee maker, a Cuisinart model I've owned in the past. The Coffeemaker went out the morning Melody (visiting guest) tried to use it. So far, everything is looking promising. I'll try making some real coffee in a minute.
Added to inventory: two fire extinguishers, dry retardant, still under regulation pressure.
Pruned: my tree in the margin. The office doubles as a Portland looking house.
