> An image model trained on a hand-picked pixel-art style then repaints it, tile by tile, each tile continuing its painted neighbours so the city stays seamless.
Nice work. The developer of Isometric NYC did something similar - creating a fine-tune of the Qwen Image Edit model. I'd be curious to hear more detail about the image model you used. (the base checkpoint, LoRAs, etc).
vunderba
As someone who's only familiar with Valencia on Google Maps, I found the default orientation very confusing. Is it possible to configure it so that north always points upwards?
akfanta
Valencia is my favorite city in the entire world :)
Any chance I can get your email to ask you some questions? I tried to find it on your website or twitter and couldn't find it.
bwb
1. Awesome!
2. I read the info, but I'm incredibly curious for more detail about the pipeline, in particular how much manual work was done, and can this be generalized to other locations? :)
NikolaNovak
I wish we all (many who have built similar projects in past few weeks) could agree on some common format of representing such maps, and then be able to drive through these in 3D...
freakynit
It is incorrect to name this pixelart. Perhaps diffusion-art. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it "slopart"—that would be derogatory.
First, it has very little in common with the process of creation of actual pixelart imagery, as all here on the map is blurred, no pixels are clearly distinguishable.
Second of all, pixelart is something ppl intent-fully create one layer at a time, very often - one pixel a time. Is akin to as embroidery (which pixelart very much resembles), and embroidery is not the same as textile produced by a Jacquard Loom. And the whole point of embroidery is to do it like this in order to achieve the result, not that you cannot do whatever you want with machine textile, and not that we don't wear it daily, because it was programmed and done by machine.
Present map is perhaps the third similar attempt at something... which has its value, but should be regarded the same as perhaps taking Pink Floyd's lyrics and progressions recreated in Suno... or rather training a model to play like Pink Floyd and then call a diffusion product psychedelic rock.
As s.o. who is both super-fan of pixel-art (such as https://x.com/84Aleha/status/2038268570094723313, though I can take isometric stuff also, that is fine), and diffusion imagery (I actually did some poster designs with it, not many), I feel the need to express my disagreement and overall confusion reg if this is an actual pixelart. To me - it is not,.
And make it actually playable? Or let me know if you’d like to collaborate, it’d be a fun project
nico
I guess you're thinking of SimCity 2000? The original used a flat top-down view (with perhaps a bit of "forced perspective" in the artwork for individual zones).
zahlman
Thanks for sharing! I'm from the region, and I really enjoyed the map and the games! In a year or so, the map will need a stadiums update :D Amunt Valencia!
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Nice work. The developer of Isometric NYC did something similar - creating a fine-tune of the Qwen Image Edit model. I'd be curious to hear more detail about the image model you used. (the base checkpoint, LoRAs, etc).
vunderba
akfanta
Any chance I can get your email to ask you some questions? I tried to find it on your website or twitter and couldn't find it.
bwb
2. I read the info, but I'm incredibly curious for more detail about the pipeline, in particular how much manual work was done, and can this be generalized to other locations? :)
NikolaNovak
freakynit
First, it has very little in common with the process of creation of actual pixelart imagery, as all here on the map is blurred, no pixels are clearly distinguishable.
Second of all, pixelart is something ppl intent-fully create one layer at a time, very often - one pixel a time. Is akin to as embroidery (which pixelart very much resembles), and embroidery is not the same as textile produced by a Jacquard Loom. And the whole point of embroidery is to do it like this in order to achieve the result, not that you cannot do whatever you want with machine textile, and not that we don't wear it daily, because it was programmed and done by machine.
Present map is perhaps the third similar attempt at something... which has its value, but should be regarded the same as perhaps taking Pink Floyd's lyrics and progressions recreated in Suno... or rather training a model to play like Pink Floyd and then call a diffusion product psychedelic rock.
As s.o. who is both super-fan of pixel-art (such as https://x.com/84Aleha/status/2038268570094723313, though I can take isometric stuff also, that is fine), and diffusion imagery (I actually did some poster designs with it, not many), I feel the need to express my disagreement and overall confusion reg if this is an actual pixelart. To me - it is not,.
larodi
https://tinyvalencia.com/?lat=39.502413&lng=-0.384328&zoom=1...
enriquto
And make it actually playable? Or let me know if you’d like to collaborate, it’d be a fun project
nico
zahlman
villosil