Under development, August, 1998.
For hundreds of years geometers and mathematicians thought that the maximum number of planes it was possible to have in a single, three-dimensional object, where each plane intersects all of the others, was four. Five and six were known to be impossible. In 1977, a Hungarian mathematician named Lajos Szilassi calculated with the aid of a computer that it was theoretically possible to have seven planes intersect each other, and he sketched out what such an object would look like. Technically the shape is known as a toroid. The name is derived from the Latin word for seven, and the word toroid.
Septorus is a symbol of the creativity of humankind, of the inherent hidden beauty of the shapes and order of the universe, and of our yearning to stretch the limits of imagination and endeavor beyond the point at which we find them.
Septorus was designed and produced under the direction of Peter Goldmark and Jonathan Newell.
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