 Professors, librarians, local artists, school students, and hundreds of USC students all participated in over 3,000 hours of work to complete this object.Discovered by Dr. Mosely in 2006, the Mosely Snowflake is a cousin of the famous "Menger Sponge", the first three-dimensional fractal known to mathematicians which was first described by Karl Menger in 1926.The "Mosely Snowflake Sponge" at USC was the first-ever instantiation of this new fractal form, and has since been reproduced by other groups around the world, including in Madagascar.