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  • a very weeny construct 💀pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website
    Nov 5, 2026, 7:50 AM

    @emily_s @kboyd ohhh wow instead of polygons you just used thick lines, that's brilliant!! now i understand why you were asking about the yellow background

    i have a hypothesis that i have yet to explore: i know run-length encoding is part of most compression software like gzip, so i wonder if we can get away with generous amounts of whitespace for indenting without increasing the gzip-compressed file size (much? at all?)

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  • Emily_Semily_s@mastodon.me.uk
    Nov 5, 2026, 7:55 AM

    @pho4cexa @kboyd ooh good point. I remember xml compressing well because of the number of repeating keys, spaces should be similar. I haven't tried compressing mine yet. One for this evening as Im nearly at my stop

    BTW thank you for this it is a fun little challenge.

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  • Emily_Semily_s@mastodon.me.uk
    Nov 5, 2026, 8:42 AM

    @pho4cexa @kboyd ooh that would make a difference to the best way to encoded paths too. The repeating relative line suffix on the chevron paths in mine should compress better than if I'd used global coordinates.

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