Thanks for being interested / opportunity to clarify. The rendering actually looked like I-Beams curved into some kind of egg-like shape. It was mathematically sound, sure, but at first glance coming up with an answer "Where can research go with this?" didn't seem apparent.

I tuned in to every Q&A session provided during the contest and time and again they reiterated certain principles for judging...when the results came in, yeah, pretty infuriating. Oh well...it did motivate me to finally meet with a Patent Attorney on a couple other ideas, so some lemonade did come out of it.