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I know this doesn't meet the spirit of the challenge, but... _,--', _._.--._____ .--.--';_'-.', ";_ _.,-' .'--'. _.' {`'-;_ .-.>.' '-:_ ) / `' '=. ) > {_/, /~) snd |/ `^ .'
Why is there a lake in Africa near Congo/Gabon istead of one near Uganda? Also, can this be done with png? Most consecutive lines are very similar, so I'd expect the algebraic pass to be very useful.
Africa and Europe are connected through Spain.
There's no Suez channel.
There are plenty of approximation: it's the whole point of the thing... You only get 1013 bytes (or, well, 500 bytes in the question asked).
What's the point in doing things like this if you just get Claude to do it?
I know this doesn't meet the spirit of the challenge, but... _,--', _._.--._____ .--.--';_'-.', ";_ _.,-' .'--'. _.' {`'-;_ .-.>.' '-:_ ) / `' '=. ) > {_/, /~) snd |/ `^ .'
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, here's what Fable came up with in 499 bytes of R in about half an hour: https://pastebin.com/sBsiGD9t , result: https://imgur.com/a/W3eDdIC . Probably with sitting down and tweaking you could do even better, but I think this is a decent first start.
Did you or Fable decide to split North and South America? Can the it also split Africa/Arabia/Eurasia? Who/how decided which islands to keep and which to erase? If you want to save a few characters, you can replace `length(v)` with the actual number.
I know this doesn't meet the spirit of the challenge, but... _,--', _._.--._____ .--.--';_'-.', ";_ _.,-' .'--'. _.' {`'-;_ .-.>.' '-:_ ) / `' '=. ) > {_/, /~) snd |/ `^ .'
Presumably you could precompute some parametric function (probably a Fourier sum) which draws a reasonably close map of the world, and get that into 500 bytes with a math-focused programming environment (R, Julia, etc.)? I might try throwing Fable at this and seeing what I can get.
Well, here's what Fable came up with in 499 bytes of R in about half an hour: https://pastebin.com/sBsiGD9t , result: https://imgur.com/a/W3eDdIC . Probably with sitting down and tweaking you could do even better, but I think this is a decent first start.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, here's what Fable came up with in 499 bytes of R in about half an hour: https://pastebin.com/sBsiGD9t , result: https://imgur.com/a/W3eDdIC . Probably with sitting down and tweaking you could do even better, but I think this is a decent first start.
And it made a classic optimization: removing New Zealand :).
Why is there a lake in Africa near Congo/Gabon istead of one near Uganda? Also, can this be done with png? Most consecutive lines are very similar, so I'd expect the algebraic pass to be very useful.
> Why is there a lake in Africa near Congo/Gabon istead of one near Uganda? Africa and Europe are connected through Spain. There's no Suez channel. There are plenty of approximation: it's the whole point of the thing... You only get 1013 bytes (or, well, 500 bytes in the question asked).