Day 18: Lavaduct Lagoon

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  • Leo Uino@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    Oh, just like day 11! I hadn't thought of that. I was initially about to try something similar by separating into rectangular regions, as in ear-clipping triangulation. But that would require a lot of iterating, and something about "polygon" and "walking the edges" went ping in my memory...