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Re:Music Fandom Maps by mfoy_ on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:57PM (#14972451)
Why is it that on some maps the artist is very far away from another, but when you click on that artist the original one appears much closer?

Is the scale relative? Is there any indicator how scaled up or down the relationships are?

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Re:Music Fandom Maps by no_gravity on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:56PM (#14972975)
It's a simulated annealing process that happens live in front of you.

Each artist has a desired distance to each other artist and is trying to get to a position that satisfies all these desired distances as good as possible.

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