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== Other uses == [[File:Kimbell Art Museum.jpg|thumb|Cycloidal arches at the [[Kimbell Art Museum]]]] The cycloidal arch was used by architect [[Louis Kahn]] in his design for the [[Kimbell Art Museum]] in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. It was also used by [[Wallace K. Harrison]] in the design of the [[Hopkins Center for the Arts|Hopkins Center]] at [[Dartmouth College]] in [[Hanover, New Hampshire]].<ref name=DartmouthAlumniMagazine/> Early research indicated that some transverse arching curves of the plates of golden age violins are closely modeled by curtate cycloid curves.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Playfair|first=Q|title=Curtate Cycloid Arching in Golden Age Cremonese Violin Family Instruments|journal=Catgut Acoustical Society Journal|volume=4|series=II|issue=7|pages=48β58}}</ref> Later work indicates that curtate cycloids do not serve as general models for these curves,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mottola|first=RM|title=Comparison of Arching Profiles of Golden Age Cremonese Violins and Some Mathematically Generated Curves|journal=Savart Journal|year=2011|volume=1|issue=1|url=http://savartjournal.org/index.php/sj/article/view/12|access-date=2012-08-13|archive-date=2017-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211053817/http://www.savartjournal.org/index.php/sj/article/view/12|url-status=dead}}</ref> which vary considerably.
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