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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Desire Paths
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Desire paths Desire paths can be paths created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The paths usually represent the shortest or most easily navigated routes between origins and destinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
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I love that the last frame suggests it may never end.
it shows that people tend to make things too straight and geometric, when they should instead be curvy and organic.
Yeah, but if you make things too curvy they no longer fit together well. And can be hard to build depending on the construction methods used.
Any medieval city builder that has transport networks I usually have my central hubs looking like I modeled them after a methed up Spidermans jizz after giving webslinging from his dick a try.
It starts just like this comic tho
It suggests that whoever keeps trying to force for the pathing is an idiot
But even when they caved and paved the desire path (good), a new desire path was created.
Whoever was trying to force it was an idiot, and people are savages.
(Although I actually question if it would end this way)
Look at the original desire path it goes to the corner the paved path is offset 30 degrees because people want to access the crosswalk not the sidewalk then the crosswalk
It suggests that they put it too far to the left.