Fascinating that the methodology used to generate these covers is local optimisation. The shape is still fundamentally the one suggested 100 years ago, with "bi

Fascinating that the methodology used to generate these covers is local optimisation. The shape is still fundamentally the one suggested 100 years ago, with "bits lopped off". Which immediately suggests the possibility that they are iterating towards a local minimum. Is the space of solutions smooth enough to have any confidence that there aren't better places to start?