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

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Post by crazygringo »

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.

That's too funny. No, it really is me, but now that I re-read it I totally see how the kind of praise I reserve for maybe one thing on HN a year is the kind of praise that ChatGPT outputs all the time...

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

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Post by crazygringo »

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.

That's too funny. No, it really is me, but now that I re-read it I totally see how the kind of praise I reserve for maybe one thing on HN a year is the kind of praise that ChatGPT outputs all the time...

And hell, I even use three em-dashes! But maybe the fact that I typed them out using hyphens is the telltale sign this is actually human...

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

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Post by tomaskafka »

anonymous908213 wrote: post #118
potatowaffle wrote: post #67

> 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…

That quote seriously rubs me the wrong way. "Dragging little boxes around" in a DAW is creative, it constitutes the entire process of composing electronic music. You are notating what notes to play, when and for how long they play, what instrument plays them, and any modifications to the default sound of that instrument. Is writing sheet music tedious? Sure, it can be, when the speed of notating by hand can't keep up…

I can make and iterate a piece of track in my head.

I have no idea how to translate it to actual audio anyone else could hear in any way, apart from learning to ~code assembler~ drag million boxes in DAW.

This gap will be filled.

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

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Post by tomaskafka »

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...

Awesome, let's look at this in privacy conscious browser:

> The link to this photo or video may be broken, or the post may have been removed. > [Visit Instagram]

Transcribed: "We probably deleted or misplaced documentation of that thing someone spent 21 years creating. We don't care - this way to feed of AI generated cat videos."

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

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Post by asdfgeoff »

ant6n wrote: post #135
cannoneyed wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It’s almost like sim city (2000), but not quite. It night help if the overall mayo was fully square.

Reminds me of Habbo Hotel
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