Talk:1784: Bad Map Projection: Liquid Resize
I'm not too experienced with PhotoShop, but I think that the tool is a selective delete that he used on water bodies, so removing most of the water while maintaining relative shapes and sizes?
- Mostly just from the fact that India looks desiccated.
162.158.166.197 05:06, 11 January 2017 (UTC)Girish
- Australia is pretty mutilated, so I think the tool was used on land too 162.158.178.111 05:55, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Where are Laos and Cambodia missing? 108.162.246.11 06:14, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
The tool removes spaces of uniform color automagically. If you have big countries like India or Australia, they get caught by the algorithm as well. 162.158.69.9 06:16, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Can anybody figure out the projection before the application of the tool? 108.162.219.232 06:58, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
- I think it is a Mercator projection that got mutilated. 141.101.104.239 07:50, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
- I agree, it looks like a Mercator that Freddy Kruger got at.
Girish, 162.158.166.197 09:02, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
I feel like there is some part of sarcasm in "unused blank spaces", as if it was Randall saying "You're right, why would anyone care about the oceans? There, I have removed them, problem solved.". Can anyone tie this to a recent event? Or maybe the joke is about improperly handling data, where you use a tool just because it's known to work well and for the sake of processing data, even if using in a given context doesn't make much sense. 141.101.69.213 10:14, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
This map proves, once again, that it's good to be an archipelago. Philippines, FTW! 172.68.54.58 13:59, 11 January 2017 (UTC)