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Posted by leugim 8 hours ago

Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View(tinyvalencia.com)
152 points | 38 commentspage 2
larodi 5 hours ago|
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,.

ericmay 5 hours ago||
Idk, it looks like better pixel art than most stuff I've seen. I'm a big fan and enjoy the website and think they did a really great job.
adwn 3 hours ago||
"It's only real pixel art if it originates from the bare hands of a starving artist, otherwise it's called 'sparkling bytes'."

This kind of gate-keeping is getting so tiresome…

nekooooo 2 hours ago||
no you're right, we'll eat slop and like it
torcete 4 hours ago||
I can't see the pink panter fountain, although it says it's there.
dn3500 6 hours ago||
The streetcar tracks fade out in places and I don't see any streetcars. And I can't see my narrow medieval street from this angle. But overall very impressive.
franciscop 6 hours ago||
Hey I'm from Valencia! This is pretty nice render of the city, thanks for sharing. I liked the mini game as well. Would've loved to see some other angles of some places though!
green-frog-445 4 hours ago|
I live in valencia!
mapcars 7 hours ago||
That is a quite a nice way to explore a city, a middle ground between regular maps (too abstract, no sense of height) and detailed/realistic street view.
stagas 5 hours ago||
This is super nice! It would be very interesting to share some details on how it was made. Good job!
petargyurov 2 hours ago||
This is cute!

First thing I did was zoom in on the City of Arts and Sciences and I can tell you that the science museum definitely doesn't have waterfalls along it's sides haha

torben-friis 6 hours ago||
Missing some tents in Plaça de l'Ajuntament :)
cozzyd 7 hours ago||
It's a good thing there was no Spanish Robert Moses...
harlequinetcie 6 hours ago|
Ohhhh very nice.

We should figure out a good game to play with it. Like adding transport infrastructure or you need to achieve X time reduction in commuting times.

Nice!

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