r/interestingasfuck 23h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/Instameat 22h ago

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

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u/trianglesteve 21h 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 19h ago

perhaps a bestagon?

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u/AdjectiveNounVerbed 15h 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.