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Noto Egyptian Hieroglyphs
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Strange metrics? #16

Open Mercury13 opened 8 months ago

Mercury13 commented 8 months ago

As U15 is ready, let’s discuss another problem: bad metrics.

Most squares have Y coordinate −260…967. image

Most people have it 0…1001. image

How to sort it out better?

simoncozens commented 8 months ago

Yeah, this is bad and hurts us when trying to do WASM-based quadrat packing. I think the ideal would be for everything to be more-or-less 0...1000.

Maybe it's time to talk my old friend Roland, who's now an Egyptology professor somewhere.

Mercury13 commented 8 months ago

@simoncozens Please talk to Roland, and we’ll think what to do. I’d prefer coordinates somewhere −150 to ???.

simoncozens commented 8 months ago

Is this the same as #7?

Mercury13 commented 8 months ago

I don’t even know. Wherever we discuss, we should figure out what to do, and I’ll write the program to transform it.