Maya, After Effects and Photoshop

First Maya environment project

A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is a vault produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. Sometimes the arches of groin vaults are pointed instead of round, as in the diagram to the right. Groin vaults also allow a great saving in material and labour over the barrel vault. The thrust is concentrated along the groins (the four diagonal edges formed along the points where the barrel vaults intersect), so the vault need only be abutted at its four corners.