Last update 13 June 2010

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.
	If you want to know in what sort of trade I am active, this is a chemical technology called ion exchange. It is mainly used to purify industrial water, but has also many applications in the chemical, mining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and food processing industries. I have almost 40 years of experience in ion exchange that I spent advising customers in the entire world, and I will be ready to offer consultancy for projects related to industrial water treatment, starting in October 2010. I can work in four languages: French, English, German, and Spanish.
	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!)
	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).