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

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Post by KolmogorovComp »

cannoneyed wrote: post #85
NAR8789 wrote: post #53

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I'm curious why you didn't do something like generate new tiles one at a time, but just expand the input area on the sides with already-generated neighbors. Looks like your infill model doesn't really care about tile sizes, and I doubt it really needs full adjacent tiles to match style. Why 2x2 tile inputs rather than say... generate new tiles one at a time, but add 50px of bordering tile on each side that already ha…

Yeah I actually did that quite a bit too. I didn't want to get too bogged down in the nitty gritty of the tiling algorithm because it's actually quite difficult to communicate via writing (which probably contributed to it being hard to get AI to implement). The issue is that the overall style was not consistent from tile to tile, so you'd see some drift, particularly in the color - and you can see it in quite a few p…

Have you tried restraining the color palette by post-processing?

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

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Post by KolmogorovComp »

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #89
cannoneyed wrote: post #40

Sorry about the hug of death - while I spent an embarassing amount of money on rented H100s, I couldn't be bothered to spend $5 for Cloudflare workers... Hope you all enjoy it, it should be back up now

> while I spent an embarassing amount of money on rented H100s Would you mind sharing a ballpark estimate?

(Not OP) Judging by the clues in the article and trial/error, probably ~1000USD for the project.

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

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Post by pimlottc »

jesse__ wrote: post #140
pimlottc wrote: post #120

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Where’s the love here? There are artists who dedicate their lives to creating a single masterwork. This is someone spending a weekend on a “neat idea”.

You're inferring that time invested per project is directly proportional to love for the craft, which I disagree with strongly. Taking a weekend to explore a new medium is an act of interest/love in the craft. Is Robert Bateman any less dedicated to a life of art than Michelangelo was? Maybe, maybe not, but I think we can both agree they produced quick sketches, and dedicated their lives to producing incredible art.…

It’s not necessarily directly correlated, but it’s a decent signal. What’s the signal here?

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

jasondigitized wrote: post #130
nonethewiser wrote: post #100

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Basically, it's not pixel art at all. It's very cool and I don't mind the use of AI at all but I think calling it pixel art is just very misleading. It's closer to a filter but not quite that either.

It's pixel art, just not the types of pixels most people want in pixel art.

It's pixel art in the same way that everything rendered on a computer screen is pixel art. It's all pixels.

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

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Post by cyrusradfar »

ivangelion wrote: post #46

Want to thank you for taking the time to write up the process. I know you'll get flak for the agentic coding, but I think it's really awesome you were able to realize an idea that otherwise would've remained relegated to "you know what'd be cool.." territory. Also, just because the activation energy to execute a project like this is lower doesn't mean the creative ceiling isn't just as high as before.

I was amazed only saw one comment mentioning the agentic coding and it was overwhelmingly positive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724639

The reality is, this is a HUGE project to do with no GIS / image gen experience without Gen AI.

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