I wanted to build a mipmap version of r/place — zoom out and you see the whole world, zoom in and you're placing individual pixels at real geographic coordinates.<p>The map is the canvas. Seoul, Tokyo, New York — pixels live at actual lat/lon positions and persist there. Watch others ...
Stories by recuerdame
I built a pixel canvas where you place tiles at real lat/lon coordinates on a world map – a 1.6M × 1.6M pixel grid (2.6 trillion addressable pixels). The technical challenge was making it feel smooth from zoom level 0 (whole world) to zoom level 18 (individual pixels).<p>What I tried and what w...