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Re:Halfsies by karaterobot on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:07PM (#38001181)
100%! Not sure what this measures, but I've spent decades trying to gauge whether a design is one pixel off, or if some minor change has affected the layout of something. Maybe that was all preparation for slicing America in two using an Australia-shaped knife.
Re:Halfsies by jayknight on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:41PM (#38001694)
100% too, but I was shooting blind for the last few. Not sure if I just got super lucky or if the brain is better tired think at setting that.
Re:Halfsies by xyzal on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:18PM (#38001351)
Congratulations, you may have discovered your unique talent! Now, about the monetization strategy ...

:)

Re:Halfsies by thewarpaint on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:44PM (#38001722)
I guess “Australia-shaped cookie cutter” would be more accurate
Re:Halfsies by taberiand on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:54PM (#38007820)
I wonder, is a cookie cutter a kind of bent knife - or is a knife a kind of straightened cookie cutter?
Re:Halfsies by topoftheforts on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:54PM (#38001882)
"Maybe that was all preparation for slicing America in two using an Australia-shaped knife" one of those sentences I feel like no one has ever said before (/r/brandnewsentence material)
Re:Halfsies by _Algernon_ on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:21PM (#38002252)
I don't think HN is the place for r/subreddithashtags
Re:Halfsies by porphyra on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:56PM (#38001906)
now if only the America vs Australia cut was on spherical (or ellipsoidal I guess) geometry rather than projecting both countries to a plane prior to slicing
Re:Halfsies by oblib on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:02PM (#38002868)
I got 97% on the first part and was impressed with myself, but you're experience with design work is certainly the professional difference. That's impressive!
Re:Halfsies by stefandesu on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:09AM (#38010068)
97% here too, with 6 out of 8 perfect cuts. Much better than I expected!
Re:Halfsies by sailplease on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:02PM (#38003677)
95pct, 4 perfect splits, did better than I thought I would
Re:Halfsies by terhechte on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:46PM (#38004381)
Congratulations, and here I was happy with my 95% :)
Re:Halfsies by irrational on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:01PM (#38004596)
I had 99%. I was barely off on the bird. After the bird I said screw it with Australia and the USA and barely tried and still got 50/50. LOL
Re:Halfsies by sangnoir on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:07PM (#38004698)
I did best when I didn't "overthink". I would briefly reasoned about the geometry, then stop once it felt right
Re:Halfsies by sshine on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:36PM (#38005154)
I got 92%, I’m proud.

I did best when I worked intuitively and fast.

Re:Halfsies by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:04PM (#38005575)
I only got perfect score on the donut/mug one... is this game trying to tell me something?
Re:Halfsies by gerdesj on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:53PM (#38006196)
You are Homer Simpson and I claim my £5, Mr Cthulu_.

Err what are your pronouns, O tentacled horror of an old one (with a trailing ledge).

I got 98% The two I cocked up I spent too long trying to align edges and geometry but actually it seems us humans do have a pretty decent hard wired equal area estimator built in. The last one - AUS/US - should be really hard but I suspect that the results are pretty good.

I'd love to see the results for this. There is almost certainly a decent paper in it.

Re:Halfsies by emmelaich on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:48PM (#38007317)
I got 100pc on the aus/usa, donut and mug, and a few others. Pretty surprised!
Re:Halfsies by gerdesj on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:20PM (#38019614)
Good skills
Re:Halfsies by sctb on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:06PM (#38006927)
100% over here, too. I used more geometric thinking at the beginning but of course that shifted into gut feeling by the end. Nice job!
Re:Halfsies by raffraffraff on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:42AM (#38009903)
97% (5 perfect). I don't know either. My guess is that most people are pretty good at judging what the half of something looks like. I feel like if the movement (on my phone anyway) wasn't as jerky/sticky I would have gotten one more perfect. I definitely had one that was very inaccurate (55/45) though.

Lol, I got the America/Australia one perfect too! That surprised me!

Re:Halfsies by nearbuy on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:51AM (#38009964)
They seem to be fudging it a bit. In the first example with the circle, anything better than 45%-55% (as measured in my graphics editor) is reported as a perfect 50-50 split.