These are called desire paths.
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For the life of me, I can't figure out what changes between panel 10 and 11.
Zoom in. The path is starting to show.
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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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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social trails
Desire paths
We were looking after someones dog for a week and we have a big yard for our dogs. This dog and one of ours got on so well they would chase each around the yard for hours, so much that after a week there was a desire path race track formed with noticeable banks around the corners and everything.
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A full bench!? I miss benches that made sense instead of the hostile architecture ones popping up.
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I've heard a story about a college campus that didn't install any paths, waited for natural dirt paths to form in the grass, then installed paths there. Neat idea.
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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I heard the same story, but for a Disneyland.
I heard that's what they did for your mom's house.
This gives me huge canvas vibes because that was happening a lot there. Haha (It was called canvas, right? The event where you place a pixel every so often.)
My takeaway from this is that I can spawn park benches and greenery by walking on the grass.
That's why there are all those "keep off the grass" signs. If people just walked all over the grass willy-nilly we'd soon be knee deep in benches and bins, and nobody wants that.
The homeless do.
we’d soon be knee deep in benches and bins
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There's been locations in the past where the decision was made to initially just build the minimum paths for handicap access and etc and then wait for the desire paths to form to decide where to put the rest of them. Great idea really. The apartment complex started plowing the one that goes from my building to the gas station.
That's actually brilliant
it's almost like humans don't move like a rook (car)
All I see here is people tricking the government into putting in a nice little micropark.
I heard Finnish municipalities do studies when it's newly snowed to check where the desired footpath goes by looking at tracks in the snow. It avoids that issue in the image
That certainly speeds up the process so they can Finnish early.
They don’t wanna be Russian around.
Otherwise there's Norway they'll be done in time
Life is like this
Local discounter had something like this, they just installed a hedge AND a fence. Really disenchanting. Not going there anymore.
Well I moved. But they cheated.
a hedge AND a fence
Cordless power tools are really good these days.
a bit of an extreme reaction to a hedge AND a fence, but I'll allow it.
I'm playing the game on a bigger scale now
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not the content we deserve, but the content we desire
I like how the path curves behind the bench after the bench goes up like people are choosing not to walk in front of people sitting on the bench.
Until the fuckers added another 2m/6ft to the walk by putting in the trashcan...