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[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

Several floors of a local multi-storey car park are laid out in the classic herringbone pattern.

45 deg Herring bone with an overlap like the Germans, or there's an invisible wall between like the junkyard.



We have mostly the 90 deg, and 60 deg. I do like the look of the third option.

[Carruthers]

This one...



It seems to be the most common arrangement in the UK.
It's simple and has stood the test of time.

I did a Google search and stumbled across an academic paper that resorts to the most byzantine of maths to prove a point that everyone knows*.
It's the second link down (Optimisation of Car Park Designs) if you're really that interested. Or bored enough.

Link


*We're back to common sense again. See above.

[xoxoxoBruce]

dist1 = lsdist(xys(j,: ), xys(j+1,: ),xyi(i,: ));
dist2 = lsdist(xys(j+1,: ), xys(j,: ),xyi(i,: ));
dist = max(dist1,dist2);
dmin = min(dmin,dist);
if dist<=lroad

Of course, why didn't I think of that?

I had to edit that, the first time it ended up like this...

dist1 = lsdist(xys(j,, xys(j+1,,xyi(i,);
dist2 = lsdist(xys(j+1,, xys(j,,xyi(i,);
dist = max(dist1,dist2);
dmin = min(dmin,dist);
if dist<=lroad