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by gus_massa 27 days ago
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.
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Analemma_ 27 days ago
Fable did that, I pretty much just told it to find the best Fourier sum which can draw a map of the world in less than 500 bytes of R. It downloaded geo data and made the curves to fit that on its own.
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gus_massa 27 days ago
Can you post the unencode version? It would be nice to see the vector with the data, for example to count how many coefficients each continent got.

Have you tried with Bezier curves? Your images show a lot of pointy parts, like Southeast Asia and that usually needs a lot of high frequencies in the Fourier representation, so I think something piecewise may be better. (Perhaps a polygon is better.)

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