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[–] iqwertyasdf 31 points 1 year ago

We get it, you use Arch!

(I use Arch btw)

[–] Rebels_Droppin 14 points 1 year ago

Gothic is my personal favorite

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

the real question is, what is the best arch

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Manjaro /s

Gothic or parabolic are probably the strongest ones, where each block has the most support. Gothic is easier build as it requires less custom shaped blocks. So my vote is on Gothic.

[–] captainlezbian 4 points 1 year ago

And as an added bonus it’s aesthetic as fuck

[–] moistclump 1 points 1 year ago

Based on material per strength or style?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rebels_Droppin 3 points 1 year ago

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Parabolic is strongest. It applies the pressure from above the best.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

followed by the gothic i presume

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Strongest is the caternary arch. Its not listed there for some reason. A caternary is the shape of a chain dangling from its two endpoints. Flip that shape and you get an ideal arch (assuming no additional forces)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

thank you. that lead to an interesting wikipedia read.

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[–] Skyrmir 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell holds up a draped arch?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm not an engineer by any stretch, but I imagine it would be the downward force of the weight of the rest of the building on the top-middle of the butt. The resulting pressure would hold the rest in place.

[–] Skyrmir 9 points 1 year ago

For all the other arch types I'd agree. That draped arch looks like the stones at the middle of each nadir should spit themselves out rather than be held in.

[–] captainlezbian 3 points 1 year ago

I’m an engineer (not civil though), and yeah it’s the same principle as any other arch. If you look at the block cuts in order for any one to go down it has to push another away from the middle, but at the end of the chain of that it hits the wall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Parabolic looks like a wizards tower entrance

[–] Frozzie 6 points 1 year ago

Gothic, else you are an heretic !

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ionic! ...no, wait

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Axiochus 3 points 1 year ago

Let's talk about rampant.

[–] WraithGear 3 points 1 year ago

The creator of the horse shoe arch was hanged until dead for his crimes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The only real genders

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i remember seeing someone with a piece of paper with all the different windows, roofs, columns, arches, etc in elementary school and i asked where they got it (which was from the teacher for the gifted and talented program), and somehow after asking the teacher (since I wasn't in G&T) I got the architecture paper, and at home I would look at that and see which were my favorites. Unfortunately it's lost now.

btw multifold and gothic are the best

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Jesus these arches are rampant! No, sorry just one is them is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

More draped myself. I get a lot of complaints about it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s a lancet arch not a gothic arch. There is no such thing as a gothic arch.