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think the broad term is 'crowd flow'


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Originally posted by Scramble:
Because, you see, your bathroom mirror sees you frequently and sees very few people. It has accumulated many images of you that are all reflected back at you and give you a more complete reflection of yourself than other mirrors do. After all, other mirrors only have fleeting glimpses of you and far too many glimpses of other people and thus reflect the accumulated images of many people along with your own reflection, making your image seem distorted. The best thing, really, is to use a new and un-looked-into mirror every time you want to see your reflection.


I love that. I believe I will adopt it as a metaphysical construct.


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Murph, you're a saint!



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Does anyone know what the study of people's movement through a space is called? I mean like, you know how they can tell where people will run in a fire, or how people flow move through a new building? That. I tried 'crowd dynamics' but it didn't fly.

How an individual will use a space is covered by ergonomics, I think.


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you guys rock. once again.

why is it that the itchiest spot on your body is always the bit of your back that you can't.... quite.... REACH.....


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you guys rock. once again.

why is it that the itchiest spot on your body is always the bit of your back that you can't.... quite.... REACH.....


I can reach my whole back. *snickers.*


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why is Gal so mean?


"Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth."

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Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon
 
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I can scratch my whole back too!

But the soles of my feet are another matter - you scratch and scratch and NOTHING HAPPENS!



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tiny ball of rage. hilarious, condensed rage - Snazz
I never really lost my virginity... it just sort of eventually wore off - Chris Addison
Um... I'm thinking that a lot of my internal conflict and malaise comes from the tension between the life I ACTUALLY want to live, and the stories I'd love to be able to tell? - T-Rex, qwantz.com
Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job. - Brian Clough
 
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That's what the corner of the wall is for, Limer.


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That's what the corner of the wall is for, Limer.


Forget the corner of the wall, now we know what to get her for her birthday - a back scratcher!


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The universe is expanding, and your belt, being a part of the universe, is expanding with it.



You clearly missed your calling as a Reference Librarian.


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Originally posted by Maeve:
since water is a colourless liquid, why does fabric get darker when it gets wet?



Found it!


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Originally posted by Domitella:
Does anyone know what the study of people's movement through a space is called? I mean like, you know how they can tell where people will run in a fire, or how people flow move through a new building? That. I tried 'crowd dynamics' but it didn't fly.


At LUL we used a model called PEDROUTE for this. It was based on the work of a chap called Fruin and I think he called it 'crowd dynamics' but what he did was about people interacting with other people in a defined space rather than individuals interacting with the space itself.


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In museums they sometimes call it visitor tracking.



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why can't things ever be in the first place you look?


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cause then you'd stop looking and it would still be in the last place you'd look.



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that's brilliant


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a peek inside the whirlwind of my thoughts

"Fairytales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten"
 
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I think he called it 'crowd dynamics' but what he did was about people interacting with other people in a defined space rather than individuals interacting with the space itself.


Both these interactions are covered somewhat by Feng Shui and the flow of Chi -for example, the shape and distribution of a space will determine or influence people's behaviour within it (lingering in certain places, walking past others...).

Which of course has nothing to do with Domi's original question.
 
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i have a phobia of back scratchers, ever since i read a ghost story that had a monkey hand back scratcher in it. *shudders violently* i HATE them


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-Brian Andreas


Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon
 
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Ok, I'm making my will, and it says I need to put down how much money I have. But surely that's going to change every week. Does anyone know how accurate that needs to be? I mean, one of my investments lost £5 grand last week - would I need to update it every time?



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tiny ball of rage. hilarious, condensed rage - Snazz
I never really lost my virginity... it just sort of eventually wore off - Chris Addison
Um... I'm thinking that a lot of my internal conflict and malaise comes from the tension between the life I ACTUALLY want to live, and the stories I'd love to be able to tell? - T-Rex, qwantz.com
Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job. - Brian Clough
 
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