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It's emergent behaviour: From simple rules interesting patterns appear. Like the Game of Life. After short thinking I see these rules (without having read the
by _nalply 4y ago
It's emergent behaviour: From simple rules interesting patterns appear. Like the Game of Life.
After short thinking I see these rules (without having read the article carefully):
1. When other people stand in your way, you slow down.
2. When someone in front of you walks in the same direction, you follow them.
3. Driving influences behaviour, for example you tend to go around people at the right side (in UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, Thailand, Japan and so on: on the left side).
No wonder you get interesting patterns (curved lanes). I wonder whether the direction of the curve is pointing the opposite for left- and right-driving countries. And I also wonder if you mix people from different countries whether the curves disappear.
- rrobukef 4y agoThe dominant hand is also important. As a lefty I have a tendency to evade left resulting in a will-they-won't-they when the other evades in the same direction.
- melagonster 4y agoI remember a lot of people prone to choose left side. so supermarket put things they want to sold a left side of entrance. although this book is old: [1]The Secret Family: 24 Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds
- 8fingerlouie 4y ago> When someone in front of you walks in the same direction, you follow them. I had the exact same thought. It's logical. If you're moving across a crowded place and the person(s) in front of you are acting as "ice breakers", you naturally follow them in that direction as it is the easiest choice. If you're moving on your own (you're the ice breaker), you will tend to avoid other people according to normal "traffic rules", and assuming everybody else also does that you effectively have lines going each direction. Also unsurprisingly, if you ask people to "evade" to the opposite side this messes up the system.