Maps without New Zealand
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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Middle-Earth is fictional. Everyone knows that.
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Honestly this one leaves out more than it leaves in.
I was going to suggest Tassie is also classically missing but the entirety of SE Asia isn't on this one
c/MapsWithMadagascar
Pattern recognition is so weird
Only 10 circles and it's already quite close
And the big one that's dead center is mostly useless
Yeah! It literally just adds a bit of Cape and Horn to Africa. Without it you'd have a nice circle for the 3 old world continents.
And the left one may well be the physical circle from a moon impact.
Africa needs to be enlarged quite a bit and there’s a whole continent missing. Not bad otherwise.
A more minimalist world map, to paraphrase a 1970s TV scientist, would be one blue pixel
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my own attempt at it
as can be seen with this diagram, i prefer straight lines over circles when it comes to geopolitics
also, i'm sorry if this offends somebody somehow
Can't believe you forgot New Zealand smh
Is New Zealand not part of Oceania?
Intelligence is knowing I could optimize this with annealing and a decent error function.
Wisdom is deciding not to get nerd-sniped like that.
I feel a tingling in my hands. An algorithm to optimize for n arbitrary polygons
I saw this and had flashbacks to a thousand Mona Lisas.
Apparently I am a fool.
What you'd do is, you pick a representative set of points from a world map, e.g. by reducing it to a low resolution, or by sampling with blue noise. Each point gets a 32-bit integer. For up to 32 circles, you check if each point is inside or outside the circle, and mark one bit accordingly. Every region created by these overlapping circles now has a unique ID for all points inside that region.
Scoring groups points by ID, finds whether each group contains more land or water points, and counts all the points outside that majority. That sum is your error.
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New Zealand missing again!
Needs a couple of more circles in there to make India and Southeast Asia pop out.
I would also add one more to NA to make it as wide as it should be. It's pretty skinny here.
I love this. I'm guessing there's a better way to choose circles, though.
Why have one for the Great Australian Bight? Just so it doesn't end up being an entire circle? That's kind of a missed opportunity to do a Philippine Sea circle and include SEA.
Edit: What about one for each continent, a couple for the Indian ocean, and then a big Pacific Ocean one that takes out of Australia, East Asia (forming SEA) and the two in America?
Weird how you can see it
Missing the 5th largest continent...
The circles ought to wrap around the edges.
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