Project for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
An 18-inch diameter sphere, tolerance +/- .015” that incorporated a vértice axle allowing rotation.
Completed it weighed about 50 lbs.
This is for a display in the lobby of the visitors center in Seattle.
They painted a map of the world on it and as it spun a large screen displayed views of their activities in that area.
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