|
![](/i/fill.gif) |
>> Actually, if you like crazy geometry, you could do worse than to wonder
>> around the inside of a Gothic cathedral...
>
> Some cathedrals sure are spectacular piles of stone. I walked up one of the
> towers on Cologne cathedral a couple of years ago - I can't believe people used
> to do it without all the extra safety-oriented metalwork recent construction
> engineers have put in. It was like mountaineering!
Cathedrals used to occasionally collapse back then too. ;-)
Some of these places I stand there and stare at the intricate geometry
and wonder how the hell people *thought* of this stuff. Then again, if
you spend 300 years building one structure, involving a team of hundreds
of people, I guess you have time to think these things through. (Still,
if *I* did this, the building would end up as a mess of cool parts that
don't actually fit together properly...)
And then there's the stone carvings. Don't get me started on the stone
carvings...
Post a reply to this message
|
![](/i/fill.gif) |