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I feel like they missed a golden opportunity to let users select between various space filling curves for the cut pattern.

I, for one, would love to have my lawn cut in a Hilbert Curve pattern.

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Get one of the mowers that follows a wire and then embed the wire under the grass in the pattern you want.

I remember seeing one of these where a guy would mow outside a pattern at one height, then adjust the height of the mower and mow the inside of the pattern so the grass was longer, giving him a noticeable pattern. Can't find a link at the moment though.

> Get one of the mowers that follows a wire and then embed the wire under the grass in the pattern you want.

Isn't it bad for the lawn to mow in a fixed pattern?

No. I often mow my lawn in a pattern to produce nice stripes. It's also commonly done on sports stadium grass. A pattern (if chosen for efficiency) can actually reduce the wear of riding/pushing a lawn mower over the grass by minimizing the number of passes needed over a given patch of grass.

> Get one of the mowers that follows a wire and then embed the wire under the grass in the pattern you want.

> Hilbert Curve pattern

OP is going to be outside for a while depending on the level of precision of that particular "pattern"...

> on the level of precision

This is pretty much set by the width of the mower blades - so not a practical issue.

Wouldn't that also be the most efficient pattern possible? No portion of the lawn would ever be cut twice.

On the other hand, hilbert curves seem to have a lot of right-angle corners, which maybe would slow the mower.

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