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Absolutely loved zooming around to see:
- my old apartment
- places I've worked
- restaurants and rooftop lounges I've been to etc
The explanation of how this was put together was even cooler: https://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc
Nice work! But not all of NYC. Where's the rest of Staten Island?
Transparency also exists, e.g. GPT Image does it, and Nano Banana Pro should have it supported soon as well.
I just want to say this isn't just amazing -- it's my new favorite map of NYC. It's genuinely astonishing how much clearer this is than a traditional satellite map -- how it has just the right amount of complexity. I'm looking at areas I've spent a lot of time in, and getting an even better conceptual understanding of the physical layout than I've ever been able to get from satellite (technically airplane) images. Th…
Author here, and to reiterate another reply - all of the critique of "pixel art" is completely fair. Aesthetically and philosophically, what AI does for "pixel art" is very off. And once you see the AI you can't really unsee it. But I didn't want to call it a "SimCity" map, though that's really the vibe/inspiration I wanted to capture, because that implies a lot of other things, so I used the term "pixel art" even th…
> What’s possible now that was impossible before? > I spent a decade as an electronic musician, spending literally thousands of hours dragging little boxes around on a screen. So much of creative work is defined by this kind of tedious grind. ... This isn't creative. It's just a slog. Every creative field - animation, video, software - is full of these tedious tasks. Of course, there’s a case to be made that the very…
> This project is far from perfect, but without generative models, it couldn’t exist. There’s simply no way to do this much work on your own, Maybe, though a guy did physically carve/sculpt the majority of NYC: https://mymodernmet.com/miniature-model-new-york-minninycity...