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Packing the world for longest lines of sight
I have a side project to find the longest line of sight on the planet 1 using a novel Total Viewshed algorithm . At a resolution of 3 arc-seconds (~92m x 92m), the planet contains around 4.5 billion elevation samples 2 . Now obviously we don’t need to calculate the visibility between literally every single one of…
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Science & SpaceMath & Algorithms2025
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| Oct 5, 2025 | Packing the world for longest lines of sight by tombh | 141 | 53 |
