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Show HN: WorldCanvas – R/place, but with a real world map as the canvas (worldcanvas.art)
I wanted to build a mipmap version of r&#x2F;place — zoom out and you see the whole world, zoom in and you&#x27;re placing individual pixels at real geographic coordinates.<p>The map is the canvas. Seoul, Tokyo, New York — pixels live at actual lat&#x2F;lon positions and persist there. Watch others ...
Show HN: WebGL mipmap renderer for a zoomable R/place on a real world map (worldcanvas.art)
I built a pixel canvas where you place tiles at real lat&#x2F;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...