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> I made the original css, ripped and uploaded the balls to imgur.
Good job.
> I always planned on finding balls for them
Easier would be to draw them.
> how the base64 works?
Image files contain a code for the computer to display as images. Raster and vector graphics do that differently but that does not matter. I think with base64 this code is translated into another what represents the graphics in a file which isn't an image but for example a CSS and which from the browser can read what to display. In our case, I guess probably there's more to it.
> If we fully optimise the pngs to reduce size, does that shorten the base64 strings?
It does seem so. I do that already. Images mentioned above (like Nigeria) were larger and their string were longer. In GIMP I tried to save them with compression but didn't help. Then I noticed they have different color scheme (something RGB-blablabla instead of RGB-default or something) and I changed it, saved with compression and that did the trick.
If you open up the different txt files posted ITT you can search those balls and compare the two. Now all are fairly short.
>>/21091/
> I gave them the ball of their greater territory
That's fine. I doubt we're gonna have posters from those places anyway. And even from a bunch of real countries. I'm not sure Endchan would locate them properly.