LAFFOLEY ARCHIVE: Original Inventions, Designs and Brilliant Ideas
CURRENT LISTING: The THANATON - "Disco Volante" or Flying Saucer as a New Platonic Form


• ABOUT THE THANATON:

"Frank Lloyd Wright came up with the classic flying saucer profile:
the soliton wave or curve of normal distribution.
[in the set-design for the the 1951 film"the Day the Earth Stood Still"]

The metal that sheathes both Gort and the
Thanaton was, as Wright said at the time,
"...to imitate an experimental substance that
I have heard about which acts like living tissue.
If cut, the rift would appear to heal like a wound,
leaving a continuous surface with no scar."

I have analyzed Klaatu's ship as a form
and have discovered that
it conforms to the divine proportion
or Phi (0.382.../ 0.618...)
in five separate ways,
including not only linear but also
mass and surface proportions.

The traditional classical columnar orders (the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, the Roman Doric, and Composite) only use Phi in three ways and for linear measurements only.
To me, the form of the Thanaton, therefore,
should be considered a new classical form."
-Paul Laffoley
time machine levogyre

1. THANATON in 1969 painting



"I Robur, Master of the World" Paul Laffoley - 1969

 

2. Geometrical Details of the THANATON as a FORM:


PHI and the THANATON
(geometrical resonances & origins) Paul Laffoley - 1981
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3. THANATON


"THE THANATON: Messenger of the Cosmic Task"
Paul Laffoley, 1996





4. THE THANATON III - Laffoley's Most Iconic Image:


THE THANATON III
(photographed in-progress)
Paul Laffoley - 1989



 


"The Thanaton III" - 1989
 Oil, acrylic, ink, lettering on canvas 73 1/2 x 73 1/2 in.

Subject: A Visitation by a Flying Saucer and Alien
Symbol Evocation: The tortoise as the Earth-Mother, the Support of the World

living klein bottle time-suit
 

5. Another "THANATON"

another painting named THANATON, but I asked Paul about this one and
he said it not abou tthe thanaton form, but is about event-systems
and the "Abyss between Cause and Effect",
The center spiral forms are the geometry of event-systems,
the images below are
Left: CAUSE - A Pencil about to Drop -
Center: The Abyss of Transition in which the pencil is in freefall
(conceptually equivalent to an uncollapsed quantum vector state)
Right: EFFECT - the Pencil has landed on a surface...
"THE THANATON" 1990's






Circumstances of the Thanaton UFO / Time-Machine
as seen in "I Robur " - 1969
Cosmic Task and Levogyre
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