Comment by Gigachad
11 hours ago
The actual article borders on just using IDs too. Things like the Union Jack are just stored as is.
The techniques here let you encode the currently existing flags but aren’t really enough to build a flag from scratch.
I’d give it a bit more credit than that. They encoded 128 flags with their scheme, only 5 of which have the union jack. The rest are truly built from scratch.
While in fairness the remaining flags seem like they would need more hard coded symbols, it’s still interesting as a procedural plausible flag generator.