Sometime the shortest path between where you are and where you need to go can't be a straight line. There are poblems in the way.

You need to change the geometry.

You need to apply Manhattan Distance.

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Manhattan Distance advises and sometimes invests in hard tech startups working on big problems in real world machine perception.

A high-resolution LiDAR overlay taken outside my office at Fibertek in 1993. The purple horizontal lines are power lines about as thick as my thumb just over 1 kilometer away. We combined the raw LiDAR feed with a bunch of other real-time data to help helicopter pilots avoid hazards too small to see.