Hi JAK: Thanks for your insight. My An Idea also uses the I Ching binary numbering system to come up with the numbers 0-7, to represent the 8 areas, and while I eliminated gluons, physicist use 8 gluons to explain the quark binding. And let us not forget the octrees: 
An
octree is a
tree data structure in which each internal node has up to eight children. Octrees are most often used to partition a three dimensional space by recursively subdividing it into eight octants. Octrees are the three-dimensional analog of
quadtrees. The name is formed from
oct +
tree, and normally written "
octree", not "
octtree".
Best, Pat