Before revision: In architecture, the funicular curve (also funicular polygon, funicular shape, from the , "of rope") is an approach used to design the compression-only structural forms (like arches) using an equivalence between the rope with hanging weights and standing arch with its load.
After revision: File:Analogy between an arch and a hanging chain and comparison to the dome of St Peter's Cathedral in Rome.png|Analogies between the hanging chains and standing structures: an arch and the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome (Giovanni Poleni, 1748)In architecture, the funicular curve (also funicular polygon, funicular shape, from the , "of rope") is an approach used to design the compression-only structural forms (like arches) using an equivalence between the rope with hanging weights and standing arch with its load.