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Thispaperproposesamathematicalmodel,whichprovidesawayofintelligentlydesigningthe

pathnetworkofthequad.Thecenterpieceofourmodelisacostfunction,whichevaluatesthe

feasibilityofagivenpathconfiguration.

Toexplorethesetoffeasiblepathconfigurationwewroteanalgorithmthatrandomlygenerates

samplesofthisset.Wethenimprovedonthissearchbyconstructinganoptimizationalgorithm

inspiredbyMarkovchainMonteCarlomethods.Webelievethisimprovedsearchhasfoundalocal

minimumpathconfiguration,asitappearsstableunderperturbation.

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Contents

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ProblemStatement

TheArtsQuadrangleasaGraph

TheLengthofaPath

UnofficialPathInducedbyHumanBehavior

TheCostFunction

Assumptions:

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AlgorithmsforFindingOptimalPathConfigurations

Results:

RecommendedSolution

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FutureWork

Bibliography

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PartI

ThetaskistoredesigntheArtsquadwalkwaysusingamathematicalmodelthatwillhelpus

determineapreferreddesign.Beyondthegeneralfactthatminimizingthetotallengthofthepaths

andmaximizingtheareasofcontiguouslawnsarepreferable,weareaskedtoconsiderthefollowing

criteria:

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Pathmaintenancecosts

Landscapingcosts

Pedestriantrafficandbehavior

Thecreationofunofficialpathsanditsimpactonthelawn

Thegeneralappealofthequad

Toimplementthesecriteriainourmodel,weareprovidedwiththefollowingprinciples:

Thepathmaintenancecostisproportionatetothetotalpathlength.

Thelandscapingcostdependsonthenumberofcontiguouslawns,thecreationofunofficial

paths（asaresultofpedestriansleavingthepavedpathstoarriveattheirdestinationmore

quickly）andthegeometryofcontiguouslawn.

Ifthepathbetweentwopointsis15%longerthanthestraightlineconnectingthepoints,a

pedestrianwillleavethepathandcutacrossthequad.

Anaveragepedestrianmightleavethepathifitimpliessavingmorethan10%ofthetotal

lengththepath.

PartII

Graphtheoryhasbeenanimportanttoolinexploringproblemswhichrangefromdeterminingthe

neuralnetworkofnematodeC.eleganstofindingthecauseoffailureinelectricalpowergrids1.

Byframingourwalkwaydesignprobleminthelanguageofgraphs,wecanreadilyextractthekey

relationshipsbetweenstructureandfunction.

WedescribetheArtsquadrangle（herebyreferredtoastheArtsquadorsimplyquad）

asagraphof10nodes,whichrepresentthemostcommonpointsofentryandexittothequad

（seefigure1below）.

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Figure1:

CornellArtsQuad

LetthesetofnodesbeA={x|x∈{1,2,...,10}}.Nowwecandefineapathtobean

orderedpair（a,b）andthesetofallpathsastherelation

R={（a,b）|a,b∈A,a=b}

（1）

sinceeverypairofdistinctnodeswilldefinealinesegment,orone-waypath,intheplane.Thenthe

setofallpossibleconfigurationsofpathsisgivenbythepowersetP（R）.Thissethas290elements

（thecardinalityofapowersetofasetwith90elements）

Thispresentsanoverwhelmingsetofpossibilities,butfortunatelytherearethreeconstraints,

whichweimposedtomakeoursetlessunwieldy.Wewillonlymodel:

1.Non-directedgraph:

Currentlythespace（1,3）isdistinctfromthepath（3,1）.Wefindthisto

beunreasonableaspedestrianpathsareveryrarely“one-way”

2.Connectedgraph:

Aestheticallyandfunctionallyitmakeslittlesensetoallowabuildingtobe

surroundedcompletelybygrass.Furthermore,wepickedthetennodesbecauseweconsidered

themtobeessentialcirculationpointsofthequad.Therefore,havingoneofthemdisconnected

fromthenetworkwouldbeunreasonable

3.Graphsincludingtheperimeter:

Thisisagainchoseninlinewithouropinionsonaesthetics

andutility.Whilepedestriansarelikelytoacceptlongerdistancesthanastraightlineto

remainontheofficialpath,itseemsunlikelythatapersongoingfromAtoBwillabidewith

apaththatstrictlyincreasesthedistancetoBbeforeallowingthepedestriantoactually

approachB（seefigure2below）.

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Figure2:

Inthefirstgraph,weseethattravellingfrom（0,1）→（1,0）neverincreasesthedistance

from（1,0）,whereasinthesecondgraph,g