Minimalist world map

Maps without New Zealand

Middle-Earth is fictional. Everyone knows that.
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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

Pattern recognition is so weird

Only 10 circles and it's already quite close

And the big one that's dead center is mostly useless
- 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.
Africa needs to be enlarged quite a bit and there’s a whole continent missing. Not bad otherwise.

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

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.
- 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?
- 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.

Another map without New Zealand

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

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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

Can't believe you forgot New Zealand smh
- Is New Zealand not part of Oceania?

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

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

I feel a tingling in my hands. An algorithm to optimize for n arbitrary polygons
- I saw this and had flashbacks to a thousand Mona Lisas.
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.
- Nerd Lemming snaps in 3 hours under zero pressure

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

When you have just enough resolution for Australia, you don’t really have the option to include smaller details.
hello from ireland
- Whats is Iceland? Doesn't exist. Greenland also doesn't exist. Same for New Zealand.
  
  You must be at the wrong parallel universe.
And their former colonies

New Zealand missing again!

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?

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

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

Weird how you can see it

Missing the 5th largest continent...

The circles ought to wrap around the edges.

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

Where the fuck's Antarctica? Get a grip!