Shakespeare & Company Membership Volumes

The physicalization contrasts the activity of the well-known members of the library (those linked by researchers to an entry in VIAF) with the activity of its relatively unknown members (no known authority records). Activity is represented by the total number of recorded events that would plausibly have brought members into the library - checking out, renewing, and returning books. By holding the physicalization in two different ways, the user can "grasp" two separate sets of data: the octahedron (non-famous members) and the cube (famous members). The ratio of the volumes of these two solids is equal to the ratio of the two datasets. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab