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Form versus Function : Walking the Line Amrish Deshmukh, Niko Stahl, Tarun Chitra November 18, 2008 1 Abstract The Arts quad is a space that is subject to several competing interests. Its design is expected to o?er the opportunity for an individual to move conveniently from one end to another, to keep general maintenance costs feasible and to allow for activities ranging from lectures to snowball ?ghts. This paper proposes a mathematical model, which provides a way of intelligently designing the path network of the quad. The centerpiece of our model is a cost function, which evaluates the fe