The quality is better, no doubt, but this method (from the paper) takes on the order of 10-45s depending on input from their table. Which is much better than 10

The quality is better, no doubt, but this method (from the paper) takes on the order of 10-45s depending on input from their table. Which is much better than 10 minutes etc. That being said, afaict OP's method is 1000x faster, at 33ms.