Cornish College of the Arts had 1 math class called Math Mysteries and I took that class. One day we talked about turning a plane, like a flat piece of paper, into a sphere. It's not as easy as it sounds. This inspired me well beyond college and I put together this design based on a picture which I am guessing came from a 70's textbook that I figured looked like it'd make a sphere.

So I traced over it in Adobe Illustrator to make a vector file that would be laser-friendly. Then to cut out the piece I used two different lazer intensities, one to cut through, one to score. I found that cardboard scored well, was easy to cut through and was cheap.
The design isn't complete yet and definetly has its flaws that I'm still working out.

I have a goal to get one cut at a makerspace in every city. I've found it to be a great excuse to get in and check out different makerspaces around the country. This is a video of the design being cut at Vocademy in California.

I can't take full credit for this, most of my job was file conversion, the volumetric octacontagon was designed by math. Thanks math.