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Question of the Day - 13 June 2020

Q:
Can you tell what this sign/sculpture says? It’s at the southeast corner of Charleston and I-15. Drove by it going both east and west but couldn’t make it out. Seemed like a large permanent metal structure.
A:

The giant blue metal sculpture is actually on the southwest corner of the Western Avenue intersection near the I-15 entrance ramp.

It's called "Found Font" and it's one of the pieces of art associated with Project Neon, the billion-dollar multi-year upgrade of I-15 and US 95 through the heart of Las Vegas. 

The design won a contest, so it was paid for the city of Las Vegas as a welcome sign. It weighs six tons, is 66-feet long and 17 feet high, and required a five-ton mobile crane with a 92-foot boom for installation.

It doesn't "say" anything, as you can see in the photo at the bottom of the answer. But it does allude to a Euler spiral, a curvature that changes linearly with its curve length (equal to the reciprocal of the radius). They're also widely used as transition curves in railroad and highway engineering for connecting and transitioning the geometry between a tangent and a circular curve.
 
None of which we particularly understand, but it sure sounds good.  
 

 

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  • VegasROX Jun-13-2020
    ART ??
    Once again, something that shows how little I know about "ART"  Makes me wonder how many dollars were spent on this spectacle by taxpayers. After all, one way or the other, it ultimately always comes down to taxpayer dollars. 

  • DwWashburn9 Jun-13-2020
    Scrap Metal
    Just because someone calls an item Art doesn't mean that it is.  The "artist" really pulled a fast one on the taxpayers of Nevada.  Must have had connections.

  • O2bnVegas Jun-13-2020
    what it says
    "Go out and treat everyone you meet exactly the same way you would like them to treat you."

  • Del Miller Jun-13-2020
    Good
    Candy Wright is correct. That's better than anything I can think of
    Leprechaun#28
    

  • JerryD Jun-13-2020
    I don't hate it
    But it makes me wonder what the other entries that didn't win the contest looked like.

  • Kevin Lewis Jun-13-2020
    Its hidden message
    "Paaaaaay resort fees...paaaaaay resort fees...paaaaaay resort fees..."