Path of least resistance

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The pathways at Ohio State University were paved based on the desire paths took by students before they were paved! - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

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Whole front yard is BRICK

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Paths

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Desire paths

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In my junior high days (mid 80s) My friends and I found a machete in one of their dad’s stuff. We spent a weekend bushwhacking paths around some city-owned but undeveloped land near a lake. We ended up wearing them down pretty good into bike paths with some jumps and cool whoops. A few years later, the city turned it into a park and paved our paths.

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For the life of me, I can't figure out what changes between panel 10 and 11.

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The homeless do.

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Zoom in. The path is starting to show.

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Makes sense for a college campus where everyone has a different schedule. Just draw a line between every building and there's your pathways.

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Correct. Couldn't see it at first. Just thought it was a pause for dramatic effect. Felt fine as a clone.

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These are called desire paths.

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Fences don't always work, I saw one go up and soon had a hole in it. Turns out deer are pretty persistent and willing to break them. Paths are not just used by people.

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Image where the bush fence appears, there should be a faint path near the road, those who don't want to hop over/wreck the bush but it should be gone once the path through the bush is open.

my_hat_stinks

The desire path curved towards the road crossing, they paved a straight path pointing away from the crossing, new curved desire path formed by people crossing the road

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Post a picture! Sounds awesome

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University of Maryland did this with their walkways for a while. They let the kids beat down paths for the year to make the sidewalks.

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Faint path from frame 12 if you push your nose to the screen glass.

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In the original post it is more clear:
https://bsky.app/profile/chazhutton.bsky.social/post/3lfsi75inbc27

Apart from the path that is added, the shadow on the trashcan gets darker and wider, the bushes are more "noisy" and the parts that were already drawn in panel 1 have shifted down by halve a pixel.

acargitz

No way there is no desire path Delta at the end of the main path where it officially meets the pavement.

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Apparently when they were building the death star, they couldn't figure out where to put the vents, so they just turned off the gravity and threw a bunch of womp rats in the center and built out pipes along the vectors of where they died.