Maps without New Zealand
Middle-Earth is fictional. Everyone knows that.
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Pattern recognition is so weird
A more minimalist world map, to paraphrase a 1970s TV scientist, would be one blue pixel
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Another map without New Zealand
Only 10 circles and it’s already quite close
And the big one that’s dead center is mostly useless
Africa needs to be enlarged quite a bit and there’s a whole continent missing. Not bad otherwise.
Needs a couple of more circles in there to make India and Southeast Asia pop out.
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?
New Zealand missing again!
Intelligence is knowing I could optimize this with annealing and a decent error function.
Wisdom is deciding not to get nerd-sniped like that.
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.
The entire southeast Asia, which makes up maybe half the majority of the world population disappeared.
can you, as a perception exercise, try to see some of the other missing territories and list them in a reply?
India isn’t really missing so much as not distinguished, but also that.
Every island is missing, starting by size with Greenland.
Northern Canada is pointed instead of concave with Hudson’s Bay. Antarctica is also missing but that counts more as a stylistic choice because it’s so frequently done.