The Polyhedron with 432 Symmetry - Pasadena, CA - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

The fountain has a small catch basin on the bottom which has blue tiles and a concrete landing. However, the sculpture is about half the size of the catch basin. I am unsure of the shape name, since it contains triangle and squares. Taken from the website, "The inscription on a nearby plaque reads: THE POLYHEDRON WITH 432 SYMMETRY/The polyhedron in the fountain is a snub cube, an Archimedean/semi-regular solid derived from a cube, with all its edges of equal/length. This shape was chosen for the central fountain in the/Beckman Institute because it mimics the symmetry of the iron storage protein ferritin, which has 24 identical protein subunits/arranged in 432 symmetry about a core of perhaps 4500 iron atoms in the form of hydrated ferric hydroxyphosphate. The snub/cube has 38 faces and 24 vertices, the vertices then representing/the subunits of ferritin."

TITLE: The Polyhedron with 432 Symmetry ARTIST(S): Gray, Harry B., designer. Schaefer, William P., designer. DATE: N/A MEDIUM: Stone CONTROL NUMBER: IAS CA002107 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: California Institute of Technology, Beckman Institute, Granville Courtyard, Pasadena, California DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None noted

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