Show HN: EarthToPixels – Turning real cities into explorable pixel art
Deep-zoom viewer for stylized pixel-art maps
Summary not yet generated for this article.
Original Text
Hi HN! A few friends and I built EarthToPixels, a project that turns real-world cities into explorable pixel-art maps.
We fine-tuned an open-source Qwen image model and built a pipeline that takes aerial imagery, generates pixel-art tiles, and keeps neighboring generations visually continuous so they can be stitched into a large map.
We built the pipeline to work with arbitrary coordinates rather than a specific city. For the first complete render, we chose our hometown: João Pessoa, Brazil. You can explore it here: https://earthtopixels.com/
Would love to hear what you think, especially about the technical side.
Comments (0 of ) ⌛