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Consider optimal book packing in higher dimensions [1]. Treating your 3D house as a 2D surface on which to store books obviously misses the point that you coul
by nologic01 3y ago
Consider optimal book packing in higher dimensions [1].
Treating your 3D house as a 2D surface on which to store books obviously misses the point that you could fill the house with books and simply crawl to the various amenities using carefully optimised passages.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_packing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_packing
- fractallyte 3y agoYou also need to consider accessibility... No point having a book if you can't conveniently retrieve it.
- nologic01 3y agoI would break that into two challenges: discoverability: knowing that do actually you have a book. this can be ensured by having a recognizable side of each book visibly exposed. This helps prevent, among others, embarrassing moments when you realize you bought a second copy of a book you already have recoverability: ability to pull a book (for those rare instances that you will actually need to do so) admittedly these constraints would make 3D book packing less dense than a sphere packing. the closest solution is probably mobile shelving [1]. Now we only need to find a way to live in such a place :-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_shelving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_shelving
- svilen_dobrev 3y agocheck the famous leoniestair.jpg (apparently made by some Levitate design studio): https://potentiallyuglyfurniture.wordpress.com/page/2/ https://potentiallyuglyfurniture.wordpress.com/page/2/
- e28eta 3y agoI’m sure you’re joking, but having recently finished reading “Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things”, there _are_ people who live that way. I think piles of magazines & newspapers were more common than books, with “goat paths” through them.