The hyperboloid structure of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium of the Saint Louis Science Centre in Missouri, built in 1963 and designed by Gyo Obata of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum. A hyperboloid is generated by rotating a hyperbola (one of the conic sections described by Apollonius) around one of its principal axes.

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