Interesting post on the Wolfram|Alpha blog about selection of the logo:
“We considered hundreds of possibilities, including many from my rather extensive collections of polyhedra on MathWorld and PolyhedronData. After rejecting many candidates, we finally settled on the attractive solid known as the rhombic hexecontahedron (“rhombic” refers to the fact that the faces of the solid consist of rhombi, while “hexecontahedron” is a word derived from the Greek, which simply means “60-faced solid”).”
Rhombic Triacontahedron Stellations.
- Further Reading:
- Stephen Wolfram is Launching Wolfram|Alpha Tonight
- Aol. n.E.w LoGo(s)
- Rushkoff- Humans are not Informavores but Consumers of Meaning
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