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Here's a fun render of how a real life Gerver's Sofa could look: https://www.mdpi.com/symmetry/symmetry-14-01409/article_deploy/html/images/symmetry-14-01409-g

• robocat 2y ago
  It would have to be custom made because the sofa size depends on your hallway width.
  • david-gpu 2y ago
    A Gerber sofa would work for all hallways that are X amount wide or wider, wouldn't it? Given how it slides over a corner.
    • immibis 2y ago
      Of course, but it's only the biggest possible sofa for a certain size hallway
      • 082349872349872 2y ago
        A real self respecting department would (a) order the sofa, and then (b) get Buildings&Grounds to adjust at least one of their lunch room-adjacent hallway corners to be the minimum size it fits through?
    • robocat 2y ago
      Also a Gerber sofa is based on a flat 2D world. Tilting the sofa to get around a 3D corner seems a reasonable solution. Presumably there's another Sofa design for the maximum that can get around a 3D corridor corner (and what height do you choose for the corridor given humans tend to choose corridors that are taller than they are wide?)
• alkonaut 2y ago
  Should be mandatory in the lunch room of any self respecting math department