Minimalist world map

I would also add one more to NA to make it as wide as it should be. It's pretty skinny here.

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I saw this and had flashbacks to a thousand Mona Lisas.

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I feel a tingling in my hands. An algorithm to optimize for n arbitrary polygons

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.

Is New Zealand not part of Oceania?

Can't believe you forgot New Zealand smh

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.

I mean one of those circles does absolutely nothing but add a bit of Cape and a bit of Horn to Africa, and it looks about the right size to me - smaller than Asia, bigger than everything else.

Russia is there, maybe you could say Mongolia too.

The near east and middle east are kinda there. Like Arabian peninsula seems

My point regarding south east Asia is that it's not just the south-east, it's the all south Asia, east Asia that are missing. (And also naturally the south east)

It's very euro centric to dedicate two circles exclusively to representing the Mediterranean but to leave India and China off, and Africa dwarfed.

Uhh, so you're reading that all as Persia, Russia and Mongolia, then?

Yeah, India and China are each over a billion, and then with SE Asia it could easily be 3.5. We're at eight, so that's not quite half, but it's close.

not “south east”.

Y'know, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and friends. Have you never heard it grouped that way?

I would say it's east Asia and South Asia that are missing, not "south east". It's like 3 billion isn't it?

can you, as a perception exercise, try to see some of the other missing territories and list them in a reply?

It was the first thing I noticed missing too, but it's "only" 0.7 billion people.

It probably should be integrated into Australia somehow, to keep circle count low.

Mandela effect. Here are so many people who seam to remember all these islands

No no nope, it doesn't exist, wrong universe.

Ireland Iceland Greenland England... whateverland, I've seen many of you dimention hoppers, you traveled to the wrong universe... ya fools.

hello?

Whats is Iceland? Doesn't exist. Greenland also doesn't exist. Same for New Zealand.

You must be at the wrong parallel universe.

When you have just enough resolution for Australia, you don’t really have the option to include smaller details.

hello from ireland

And their former colonies

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Middle-Earth is fictional. Everyone knows that.

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

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.

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.

Maps without New Zealand

Pattern recognition is so weird

Only 10 circles and it's already quite close

Another map without New Zealand

The entire southeast Asia, which makes up maybe half the majority of the world population disappeared.

A more minimalist world map, to paraphrase a 1970s TV scientist, would be one blue pixel

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

Intelligence is knowing I could optimize this with annealing and a decent error function.

Wisdom is deciding not to get nerd-sniped like that.

Bro hated imperialists so much, they straight up deleted UK and Japan...

New Zealand missing again!

Needs a couple of more circles in there to make India and Southeast Asia pop out.

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

The circles ought to wrap around the edges.

Missing the 5th largest continent...

In the end, we really are all just the Brady Bunch

Where the fuck's Antarctica? Get a grip!