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by teddyh 3295 days ago
So how would https://xkcd.com/195/ look using a z-curve instead?
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I'd imagine it would look less continuous: some of the areas would be ripped apart and spread across the map.
On a lark I plugged this into Google https://encrypted.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&q=https%3A%... and if you peer at the results, you can see that Google is highlighting "Hilbert curve" as if it were matching one of my search terms. I guess that its algorithm has "learned" that Hilbert curve is a synonym for z-order curve?