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From: eafaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Faust)
Subject: Re: MIT Kresge Auditorium Roof Shape
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 13:56:33 GMT
In article <CLC2tr.16E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Charles <chapoton@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>Is the roof shape of the Kresge Auditorium at MIT
>derived from a:
> sphere
> hyperbolic paraboloid
> neither???
>
Campus mythology has it that it came from a grapefruit half, chopped on the
sides.
From: eafaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Faust)
Subject: Re: MIT Kresge Auditorium Roof Shape
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 13:56:33 GMT
In article <CLC2tr.16E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Charles <chapoton@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>Is the roof shape of the Kresge Auditorium at MIT
>derived from a:
> sphere
> hyperbolic paraboloid
> neither???
>
Campus mythology has it that it came from a grapefruit half, chopped on the
sides.