Figure 1: Quark Motion Through the Synergetic Field. The figure above shows the motion of a quark through a local, two-dimensional cross-section of the synergetic field. In this figure, the center of motion of the quark is defined by the vector equilibrium that is contracted to its tetrahedral phase.

The animation starts with the tetrahedrally contracted vector equilibrium on the left side of the screen. The tetrahedral contraction moves from left to right across the field of view. It pauses when it reaches the right side of the figure, and then "bounces" back, traveling back to the left side of the screen. When it reaches the left side, it again pauses. When it pauses on either the right side or left side, the tetrahedral contraction is clearly visible compared to the vector equilibria further away that are in their cuboctahedral phases. As one moves even further away from the center of the quark, the cuboctahedral phase vector equilibria themselves gradually merge with the surrounding isomorphic phase vector equilibria, but these are not shown in the animation.

In the animation above and in the figure below, the transition from the tetrahedrally contracted vector equilibrium at the center of the electron to the cuboctahedral phase vector equilibria at the edges of the figures occur much faster than in nature. In nature, this transition is expected to occur across the span of hundreds or even thousands or more vector equilibria. The illustration shows only the left-handed, tetrahedrally contracted set of vector equilibria. The complementary right-handed, octahedrally contracted vector equilibria are omitted for visual clarity.

Figure 2: Quark Motion Still-Frame. This figure shows a still-frame from the animation of the localized, quark deformation of the synergetic field shown in Figure 1, above. The centermost vector equilibrium in the figure is contracted to its tetrahedral phase. As one moves radially away from this centermost vector equilibrium the surrounding vector equilibria gradually morph into their cuboctahedral phases. This pattern of deformation spanning multiple vector equilibria defines a quark in the synergetic field. A quark is nothing other than this local pattern of deformation. It is not a separate entity external to the field but is rather part and parcel of the synergetic field itself.