Balance Z-Rod Pictish Tattoo Design geometry The scientist for whom this

The scientist for whom this pattern was created as a symbol of frontier optics research explains it thus: "To me

For the Hopi Indians of the great American SouthWest desert

stands in holy ground outside Saint Patrick's Slane Abbey there

with ravens standing on the weaving knotwork that forms their bodies

This particular pattern was found on the shield of King Raedwald

Balance Z-Rod Pictish Tattoo Design geometry The scientist for whom thisA 6th century Pictish carving on the Rodney standing stone near Brodie Castle in Moray, Scotland depicts the balance of two great warring clans. This symbol is a doubled disc and Z rod, memorializing the time when they came together and joined forces, creating a stronger Pictish Nation.