Visualizing relationships:

The pyramids of Cheops

are each comprised of four triangular planes set about a square base.

triangles

in a two dimensional world, pyramids may be reduced to a three sides figure or triangle.

Here, a large base and three sides also conveys a diminishing relationship between the apex and the base of any process.

The apex or top represents the outcome, and the base or bottom stands for the underlying supporting parts of the process; in this case turning grain into bread, or digestible food.

Apex

Base

Varieties of triangular relationships

Hidden within atoms are quarks.

atoms

Hydrogen atom

 

Neutron

Three quarks make up sub-atomic particles

triangle

Quarks