The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D software rendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.

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Indeed, one principal purpose of the Bolshoi simulation is to compute and model the evolution of dark matter halos thereby rendering the invisible visible for astronomers to study, and to predict structures that astronomers could then seek to observe.

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