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Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of... by QuantumNomad_ on Thursday January 22, 2026 @04:07PM (#46725139)
Yup, not pixel art. I wonder if people are not zooming in on it properly? If you zoom in max you see how much strangeness there is.

It kind of looks like a Google Sketchup render that someone then went and used the Photoshop Clone and Patch tools on in arbitrary ways.

Doesn’t really look anything like pixel art at all. Because it isn’t.

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Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of... by echelon on Friday January 23, 2026 @08:51AM (#46732466)
Pixel art is just a style now, just like "photorealistic" and "water color".

Everything is just a style now. And these names will become attached to the style rather than the technique.

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