Amazing. Took forever but I found my building in Brooklyn as well as the nearby dealership, gas station, and public school.
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#62> I’m not particularly interested in getting mired down in the muck of the morality and economics of it all. I’m really only interested in one question: What’s possible now that was impossible before?
Upvote for the cool thing I haven’t seen before but cancelled out by this sentiment. Oof.
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#64Some people reported 429 - otherwise known as HN hug of death. You probably need to adjust how caching is handled with this.
Yup the adjustment was giving cloudflare 5 bucks :)
Hah! I thought caching stuff was free. Is it because of the workers? I assumed this was all static assets.
I too have been giving cloudflare 5$ for a while now :D
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#65I was extremely excited until I looked closer and realized how many of these look like ... well AI. The article is such a good read and would recommend people check it out.
Feels like something is missing... maybe just a pixelation effect over the actual result? Seems like a lot of the images also lack continuity (something they go over in the article)
Overall, such a cool usage of AI that blends Art and AI well.
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#66Just curious, about how long did this project take you? I don't see that mentioned in the article.
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#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 act of doing this manual work is what refines your instincts - but I think it’s more of a “Just So” story than anything else. In the end, the quality of art is defined by the quality of your decisions - how much work you put into something is just a proxy for how much you care and how much you have to say.
Great insights here, thanks for sharing. That opening question really clicked for me.
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#68This is awesome, thanks for sharing this! I am especially impressed with the “i didn’t write a single line of code” part, because I was expecting it to be janky or slow on mobile, but it feels blazing fast just zooming around different areas. And it is very up to date too, as I found a building across the street from me that got finished only last year being present. I found a nitpicky error though: in Brooklyn downt…
The author had built something like this image viewer before and used an existing library to handle some of the rendering.
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#69Probably the best pre-AI take of the isometric pixel art NYC is poster from the art collective eboy. In the early 2000s their art was featured in MoMA (but I don't remember the NYC poster specifically).
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#70Would it be simple to modify this to make a highly stylized version of NYC instead? Like post apocalyptic NYC or medieval NYC, night time NYC, etc. because then that would have some very interesting applications