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Old 08-20-2004, 09:17 AM   #7
troutman
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There are many arenas with the hyperbolic parabola roof. The one in Athens, one in Finland, the old arena where the Capitals played. There was a thread on the old board that had pictures of many of these arenas around the world.

Make your own hyperbolic parabola:

http://hverrill.net/pages~helena/origami/parabola/

The math behind it:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicParaboloid.html
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