That well-defined six-sided shape is pretty freaky, but it's actually a natural outcome of a spinning fluid — the air circulating Saturn's atmosphere — which itself is in a spinning system — in this case, the planet itself.
Parisian jewelry house Chaumet designed the medals, which were part of the Games' lasting legacy. A hexagonal, polished chunk of iron taken from the iconic Eiffel Tower was embedded in each gold, silver and bronze medal.
Sometimes, you think that you're handing out a worksheet just reviewing the names of shapes. But then instead of getting back hexagon and octagon, you get back this.
Each of its 36 hexagonal mirror segments is polished so smooth, if they were the size of the Earth, their largest imperfections would only be three feet high.