Chinese-American artist/architect Maya Lin got her big break when she won the commission to design the Vietnam War memorial when she was still a student at the Yale School of Architecture, beating out her own professor.  Since then, Lin has been greatly influenced by the environment and science in her work, an interest she brings into her work. Lin created Storm King Wavefield over an eleven-acre site, basing her design on the physics concept of standing waves and the idea that the shape of a wave is completely random, with no two wave formations ever being identical.  She translates the wave, a figure only visible in water, onto land, manipulating the landscape into mini hills reminiscent of stagnant standing waves.