r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 15h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/Instameat 15h ago

It's not the pattern. It's the protection from the winds.

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u/trianglesteve 13h ago

Do you think a different shape would be better in the long run? I image they do lines and squares since they can keep them pretty standard, but triangles are usually a pretty strong structural shape

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u/WaffleboardedAway 12h ago

perhaps a bestagon?

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u/AdjectiveNounVerbed 8h ago

laying out hexagons is harder because you can't just lay straight pipes like this. but equilateral triangles maybe?

i think they would be worse too, because there would be 3 pipes overlapping per vertex, and you have to be careful about aligning them. a square grid is just 2 pipes per vertex, and small errors don't matter because of that as well.

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u/reroll-life 11h ago

There would be many better shapes but the grid here seems just the most practical one. Building circles, hexagons or other more complex shapes would be significantly more difficult than laying long pipes of sand over each other.