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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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The cathedral was designed by hanging weights on a lattice work of stringthuis creating an upside down skelton for the building. This apparently showed how the loads worked together.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 18 May 2010, 9:55,
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I've seen the modelfucking awesome idea. the weights were scaled to represent the loads from the structure, and the strings described the perfect arch shape to support them.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 18 May 2010, 10:21,
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