SPRING 2005
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Team members included (from left) Dan Schwalbe of Minneapolis; Professor Stan Wagon of Macalester College in St. Paul (team captain); Berkeley EECS professor Carlo Séquin; Richard Seeley of Silverthorne, Colorado; and Professor John Sullivan of Berlin’s Technical University.
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COURTESY OF RICHARD SEELEY
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Carlo Séquin uses custom software to model, then build complex snow sculpture
EECS professor Carlo Séquin was part of the five-man team that built this unique snow sculpture, entitled “Knot Divided,” for the 15th International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge, Colorado, last January.
The team spent five days building the structure, which begins with a trefoil knot formed by a band that also undergoes three half-twists when viewed from the top. Séquin designed the sculpture with custom software that his students built over the last five years, then prepared scale models on one of Berkeley’s rapid prototyping machines to guide construction. See more about this and other snow sculpture competitions at Séquin's website.
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