Team Minnesota 11th annual Breckenridge (Colo.) International Snow Sculpture Championships January 16-20, 2001
	White Narcissus (Sketch by Robert Longhurst)	The final 15-foot high snow sculpture
	Team Members Stan Wagon (Team Captain) Robert Longhurst (Artist) John Bruning Dan Schwalbe Matthias Weber (Photographer)   Sponsored by Wolfram Research Links 1999 entry 2000 entry Sculptures of Robert Longhurst Sculptures of Helaman Ferguson Web site about contest. Friends of Sculpting

It is remarkable that snow is strong enough to allow the sculpting of thin shapes with complicated twists. We will carve a complex, wrapwround shape -- an original design of sculptor Robert Longhurst -- called "White Narcissus"; the name is derived from the way the twisting surface embraces itself. The idea of using saddle shapes to enhance structural strength is derived from the occurrence of such shapes in nature, as in soap films.
 

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