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Re: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

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Post by hayleox »

bitneuker wrote: post #203
crazygringo wrote: post #127

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…

Isn't this comment AI? The writing screams ChatGPT to me.

This comment isn't just amazing -- it's my new favorite comment on Hacker News.

Re: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

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Post by adam_dev »

polishdude20 wrote: post #220
cannoneyed wrote: post #86

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100% - I originally wanted to do that but when I realized how much manual work I'd have to do just to get the tiles generated I had to cut back on scope pretty hard. I actually have a nice little water shader that renders waves on the water tiles via a "depth mask", but my fine-tunes for generating the shader mask weren't reliable enough and I'd spent far too much time on the project to justify going deeper. Maybe I'…

There's gotta be an easy way to just use the Google maps data to make a mask for the water?

I am doing something like you describe but it uses real maps.

https://lisbonracer.com/

Re: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

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Post by diabllicseagull »

cannoneyed wrote: post #37
xnx wrote: post #8

> 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...

This project is awesome, and I love that there are people who are driven enough to make something with so much craft, attention, and duration. That being said I have three kids (one a newborn) - there's no possible way I could have done this in the before times!

you don't have to do it alone

Re: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

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Post by westoque »

> I simply booted up a VM with an H100, ssh’d into it with Cursor, and prompted the agent to set up an inference server that I could ping from my web generation app. What used to take hours or days of painful, slow debugging now takes literally minutes.

an awesome takeaway from this is that self-hosted models are the future! can't wait for hardware to catch up and we can do much more experiments on our laptops!

Re: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

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Post by socalgal2 »

plomme wrote: post #181
cannoneyed wrote: post #136

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I'd say that deciding where a transient should go" is creative, manually aligning 15 other tracks over and over again is not (not to mention having to do it in both the DAW and melodyne)... I agree that "push button get image" AI generation is at best a bit cheap, at worst deeply boring. Art is resistance in a medium - but at what point is that resistance just masochism? George Perec took this idea to the max when he…

> It doesn't matter what you make or how you make it. What matters is why you make it and what you have to say. I want to add one point: That you make/ ship something at all. When the first image generating models came out my head was spinning with ideas for different images I'd want to generate, maybe to print out and hang on the wall. After an initial phase of playing around the excitement faded, even though the mo…

Related? Unrelated? Places like redbubble.com will let you print your design on t-shirts, dresses, mugs, pillow covers, bathroom curtains, bedspreads, shower curtains, stickers, posters, phone cases, and 50+ other things. And, cheap! You can order a single print t-shirt for ~$20

When I first saw all the items I was like "yea, I'm going to cover my house in custom stuff'. But other then a few personal t-shirts I haven't done anything.

Re: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

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Post by socalgal2 »

anonymous908213 wrote: post #142
cannoneyed wrote: post #136

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I'd say that deciding where a transient should go" is creative, manually aligning 15 other tracks over and over again is not (not to mention having to do it in both the DAW and melodyne)... I agree that "push button get image" AI generation is at best a bit cheap, at worst deeply boring. Art is resistance in a medium - but at what point is that resistance just masochism? George Perec took this idea to the max when he…

To be clear, as I said in another reply downthread, I think this particular project is creative, although creative in a fundamentally different way that does not replace existing creative expression. I also don't object to people doing "push button get image" for entertainment (although I do object to it being spammed all over the internet in spaces meant for human art and drowning out people who put effort into what…

To me, this project is the point. AI makes "push button get image" is now a thing just like photography made "push button get image" a thing. People complained then that photography was not art. But then eventually we mostly found the art of photography. I think the same will happen for AI stuff. When everyone can do it you need to do something else/more

Re: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

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Post by TeMPOraL »

hayleox wrote: post #221
bitneuker wrote: post #203

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Isn't this comment AI? The writing screams ChatGPT to me.

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