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Re: Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

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Behind the scenes stuff: https://sf.isopolis.city/dev.html > The source is Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles. Isometric.nyc explored and rejected the use of 3d building data. It is pretty insane that US gov has free LIDAR data for every city in the US available to the public. I spent > Now that we have the 3D tiles, we need to generate the ground truth pairs for training! Similar to isometric.nyc, I generated a few ghib…

Really cool stuff

Re: Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

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Honest opinion: Really charming on first look, but nothing where you can get lost in the details, because once you look closer, the soullessness of the generated imagery comes through. So I spent about 5 minutes looking at it, then moved on, and likely won't ever go back there. With other things, like Floor796 that other people pointed out, I can spend so much time looking at all the labor of love that went in there,…

Ouch, this seems unnecessarily harsh for a side project made for fun. This might be acceptable if this was a low effort single prompt to an AI but it’s pretty clear from the write up that that is far from the case. FWIW I thought this was really cool.

For me it's the copy, it really does read as soulless slop and I think there are many people who are just tired of it.

Re: Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/these-oblique-satell... "Satellite images from highly oblique angles are pretty mindblowing" If u like this u will like that

woahhh, these are so beautiful!

I haven't used it but Vexcel makes oblique imagery available. They use planes I believe to get multiple passes of each are they image and from various angles. Then they combine it and make the maps available.

https://vexceldata.com/

Re: Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

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Honest opinion: Really charming on first look, but nothing where you can get lost in the details, because once you look closer, the soullessness of the generated imagery comes through. So I spent about 5 minutes looking at it, then moved on, and likely won't ever go back there. With other things, like Floor796 that other people pointed out, I can spend so much time looking at all the labor of love that went in there,…

For context, Floor796: https://floor796.com/

Note that clicking the characters shows extra information.

Protip, visit About -> FAQ; there are many interesting questions like “What interactive elements are there?”.

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401612 (and others).

Re: Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

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Honest opinion: Really charming on first look, but nothing where you can get lost in the details, because once you look closer, the soullessness of the generated imagery comes through. So I spent about 5 minutes looking at it, then moved on, and likely won't ever go back there. With other things, like Floor796 that other people pointed out, I can spend so much time looking at all the labor of love that went in there,…

For context, Floor796: https://floor796.com/ Note that clicking the characters shows extra information. Protip, visit About -> FAQ; there are many interesting questions like “What interactive elements are there?”. Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401612 (and others).

Wait, that's an example of something that's supposed to be better?

Re: Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

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Behind the scenes stuff: https://sf.isopolis.city/dev.html > The source is Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles. Isometric.nyc explored and rejected the use of 3d building data. It is pretty insane that US gov has free LIDAR data for every city in the US available to the public. I spent > Now that we have the 3D tiles, we need to generate the ground truth pairs for training! Similar to isometric.nyc, I generated a few ghib…

> I'm stoked for the golden era of side-projects! Love that attitude. Me too!

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