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Encircled Iceland Incircles

Graphic representation of Iceland. The frame is circular, with a blue background. Iceland is depicted as a series of circles of decreasing size, tightly packed together. The circles are red. The title is ÍSLAND and the capital, Reykjavík, is also labelled. Credits at the bottom read: Encircled Iceland Incircles / by-tlohde / made with Natural Earth
Encircled Iceland Incircles: The biggest circle that fits inside (an incircle) of Iceland (in UTM), and then the next biggest circle that doesn't overlap the first, and then the...and so on. Day 24 of 2024 #30DayMapChallenge: only circular shapes.
projectionUTM Zone 27N
toolspython: matplotlib, shapely, geopandas
dataNatural Earth
fontHigh Tide by Filipe Rolim
commentsA pointless, and slightly silly idea, the output of which I am very fond of. To find the point furthest from an edge, used a method similar to that of Garcia-Castellanos & Lombardo (2008). My implementation was computationally inefficient, I think.
date24/11/2024