Last update 10 April 2008

François de Dardel

Click = music

You have discovered enough of myself in reading my homepage. Here a few more things.
	The picture on the left dates from the time Brigitte Bardot was the most acclaimed French actress... Algeciras, Spain. Photo taken by Bernard on our way to the Sahara.
	This is where I live. I grow all sorts of edible and ornamental plants on the terrace.
	Have you heard about Ray Tracing? No, this is not the latest Californian pop-star, it is a computer technique to create synthetic images. Click on the picture at the left for an example. A serious business. Here some more details and examples with explanations about the whole process of ray tracing, and a few modest creations of mine. There is a site around the software I am using: Persistence of Vision.
	Family history (English & French). Click on the picture. Update 30 Jan 2003 Or go to the Dardel Family Reunion site. Pictures of the family reunions in Switzerland (1999) and Sweden (2002). It also features the complete genealogy of my family, updated twice per year since 1998 (17 generations of Dardels!)
	If you want to know in what sort of trade I am active, you can give a look to the homepage of my employer (Rohm and Haas Company). I'm working in the Ion Exchange division. I prepared the first set of web pages for this business, released in October 1998, now replaced by another set of pages.
	This cartoon was made on 6th May 2000 by Marc Ingrand. Click the small picture to see it enlarged.
	Winter sports (Jan 2002). Picture of the web master taken by Caroline in Villars-sur-Ollon.
	I changed my good old Vespa for the latest model by Piaggio. I found on their site the picture on the left, from the film "Roman Holiday", by William Wyler. One can see (click the small image) Eddie Albert, Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn.

And the music, if you have clicked on the icon at the top, is by J.S. Bach: "The Postillion's horn fugue" (see my music page).