labels
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Three rounds to keep a label on the planet
A row of country labels floated in the sky above the globe's horizon. Round 1 — an angular margin, provably safe at every zoom — died because floaters and healthy labels interleave in angular depth (Nigeria 0.332 floats, Kenya 0.329 doesn't). Round 2's screen-space limb fixed Chad and missed two-line Burkina Faso by exactly one line of text. The gate only held once it moved to where the quad height actually exists.