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

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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...

Huh, the linked instagram account is no longer available :/

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

#13
> Slop vs. Art

> If you can push a button and get content, then that content is a commodity. Its value is next to zero.

> Counterintuitively, that’s my biggest reason to be optimistic about AI and creativity. When hard parts become easy, the differentiator becomes love.

Love that. I've been struggling to succinctly put that feeling into words, bravo.

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

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Not working here, some CORS issue.

Firefox, Ubuntu latest.

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://isometric-nyc-tiles.cannoneyed.com/dzi/tiles_metadat.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). Status code: 429.

Edit: i see now, the error is due to the cloudflare worker being rate limited :/ i read the writeup though, pretty cool, especially the insight about tool -> lib -> application

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

#18
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...

Huh, the linked instagram account is no longer available :/

TikTok content is still up https://www.tiktok.com/@balsastyrofoam300

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

#19
So, wait: this is just based on taking the 40 best/most consistent Nano Banana outputs for a prompt to do pixel-art versions of isometric map tiles? That's all it takes to finetune Qwen to reliably generate tiles in exactly the same style?

Also, does someone have an intuition for how the "masking" process worked here to generate seamless tiles? I sort of grok it but not totally.

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

#20

Not working here, some CORS issue. Firefox, Ubuntu latest. Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://isometric-nyc-tiles.cannoneyed.com/dzi/tiles_metadat... . (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). Status code: 429. Edit: i see now, the error is due to the cloudflare worker being rate limited :/ i read the writeup though, pretty cool, e…

Not working here either. Two different errors with two different browsers on Arch.

- Chromium: Failed to load tiles: Failed to fetch

- Zen: Failed to load tiles: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.

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