While puttering around on the google labs website, I discovered their Google Sketchup. A software for making realistic 3D models. While not intended to be a replacement for CAD I found it powerful and not so difficult to get the hang of. So as a start I decided to make a true model of the gateway arch, as detailed as could be without getting into things like windows and doors and stuff. After about a couple of hours, here it is. While I didn't bother getting the true catenary shape of the arch, it is pretty close as can be seen if you rotate the image in Google Earth you can get an exact overlap of my model on the real shadow. I made a better model. This took far less time and is more accurate and easier.
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