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by ksymph 27 days ago
Since the map just has two states - land or water - I wonder if there's a way to represent the same information more efficiently bits rather than bytes.
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Any decent compressor will take care of this - and much more.
Here's a map in one bit, where 0 is water and 1 is land: 0
Rather lossy