A confluence of art, engineering, and mathematics led to the creation of
Colgate Professor DeWitt Godfrey’s latest sculpture,
Odin, a giant steel structure now nestled in the courtyard between Olin Hall and the
Robert H.N. Ho Science Center.
The sculpture shares a name with the ruler of Norse gods for a reason. Godfrey’s
Odin weighs in at 13 tons, was cut from 38,000 pounds of steel, is 40-feet in diameter, and is composed of 240 unique conic sections, called frustums, held together at 2,500 individual points.
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