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This map proves, once again, that it's good to be an archipelago. Philippines, FTW! [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.58|172.68.54.58]] 13:59, 11 January 2017 (UTC) | This map proves, once again, that it's good to be an archipelago. Philippines, FTW! [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.58|172.68.54.58]] 13:59, 11 January 2017 (UTC) | ||
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Revision as of 06:14, 12 January 2017
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)
- It seems that Laos and Burma have been merged into one big county, as well as Cambodia and Thailand. Maybe they are just unnecessary details according to this map projection. 162.158.238.22 16:39, 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)
Comics like these make me wonder how Randall preserves the XKCD visual style when working with content that is clearly not hand-drawn. ~AgentMuffin
