Happened to have this slide in one of my lectures. The green circle and green dot correspond to the Euclidean norm, the purple square and purple line to the sup norm. With the Euclidean norm, the green dot is the closest point in the square to the blue dot; with the sup norm, the purple line is the set of closest points in the square to the blue dot.
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