FetchPoint: The Game

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Bright Strider 4 Jun 3:44pm, 4 Jun 2024 401 posts	0 Bright Strider I suppose the theoretical limit is the number of Fetchpoint grid points in your circle. However, if there is already an object there, the new object can't land. I don't know how many grid points there are in a circle.
Funky Chicken 14 Jun 10:09am, 14 Jun 2024 957 posts	0 Funky Chicken Higgs boson spotted in north London today - another time, I would have got on my bike and grabbed it (bugs are currently rampant in my home zone), but I'm resting ahead of a race so will leave it for someone else. On the map, it's just south-west of Angel, in the grounds of St Mark's church.
JCB 14 Jun 4:47pm, 14 Jun 2024 5,702 posts	0 JCB Bright Strider wrote:I suppose the theoretical limit is the number of Fetchpoint grid points in your circle. However, if there is already an object there, the new object can't land. I don't know how many grid points there are in a circle. Found this about circles: en.m.wikipedia.org I once was curious about this in the past and counted the number of points across and the number vertically: fetcheveryone.com/blog-share.php?id=443262 Unsatisfactorily I had no idea at the time how to properly calculate the number of grid points based on 31 x 39. But for circles it's roughly the same as the area. So I am thinking it's the same for an ellipse. Google says area of an ellipse with axes of 15 and 19 (31 x 39) is 895 (see url below) google.com I would be interested to hear if other people's circles have the same dimensions or not, or if anyone has actually been able to count all the points.
Bright Strider 14 Jun 5:27pm, 14 Jun 2024 402 posts	0 Bright Strider Great work, JCB! The distortion from a circle could correspond to the distortion of the Conquercise squares. Where I live, they look more rectangular than square. Presumably, because latitude is about degrees not distance. Or, is there a better explanation? I am no cartologist or geographer.
JCB 14 Jun 5:45pm, 14 Jun 2024 5,703 posts	0 JCB I tinkered around in a spreadsheet and for axes 15 and 19 there seems to be 865 points inside or on the ellipse.
JCB 14 Jun 5:47pm, 14 Jun 2024 5,704 posts	0 JCB Bright Strider wrote:Great work, JCB! The distortion from a circle could correspond to the distortion of the Conquercise squares. Where I live, they look more rectangular than square. Presumably, because latitude is about degrees not distance. Or, is there a better explanation? I am no cartologist or geographer. Thanks! Same here. Not sure about the circles becoming elliptical for fetchpoint. It could be similar to Conquercise squares. I may do some research and report the results.
JCB 14 Jun 5:57pm, 14 Jun 2024 5,705 posts	0 JCB When moving the home point it does say it's a circle with one mile radius. I tried Antarctica and Greenland but I can't tell how far away the bugs are in terms of grid points. It does seem that the circle is much bigger. I go to maximum zoom out (only 4 or so steps are allowed this close to a pole) and I can't see all the circle.
JCB 14 Jun 6:01pm, 14 Jun 2024 5,706 posts	0 JCB In Greenland, it was actually only two steps of zooming out allowed. Then part of the circle is visible:
JCB 14 Jun 6:31pm, 14 Jun 2024 5,707 posts	0 JCB There seem to be issues on my mobile on the fetchpoint map. But it's a bit easier to see on the 'plot a route' page with fetchpoint and conquercise turned on (and satellite).
JCB 14 Jun 7:20pm, 14 Jun 2024 5,708 posts	0 JCB JCB wrote:I tinkered around in a spreadsheet and for axes 15 and 19 there seems to be 865 points inside or on the ellipse. I had made mistakes calculating from an approximate quarter of the ellipse. Using the entire ellipse I found 889 points.