Droopy Cloth Marks the Horizontal Plane of a Torus

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on December 18, 2024 - view original post.

When you see a "droopy cloth" like on images A, B, C and D, it is marking the horizontal plane of a torus. But sometimes that horizontal plane seemingly is at the upper edge of an object, (like on B and C) but it is still the lower half of a torus that is acting as a portal, so the upper half may be "not-in-our-reality" .

Droopy cloth in ancient art marks the horizontal plane of a torus, with ears marking the head-torus plane and the waist marking the body-torus plane i

The head-torus (like image E) often uses Ears to mark the half-way horizontal plane. The body-torus (like image F) often uses the waist to mark the horizontal plane. Look closely at the waist of image F.

Before I knew about half-torus portals and tori sometimes having multi- strata layers, I didn't fully understand the droopy cloth, because it was usually ambiguous about flow direction. But now, I think that droopy cloth is just "making a shape", a half-circle shape, and the ambiguity is deliberate because the horizontal plane has flow entering and exiting from many places.

Please recall from previous posts, that a portal torus often is half overlapping a much bigger torus at its outer barrier, so the horizontal plane, or waist, is an OK place for a half-circle portal symbol to be.

Images H, I and J are using half-tori with strata layers, to mark the horizontal planes of those container-tori-symbols, and that seems reasonably equivalent to the droopy cloth examples.

Here are more examples: https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/droopy-cloth/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/half-portals/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/overlapping-tori/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/strata-layers/