Yadong Xie Uses AI to Turn San Francisco Into an Isometric Pixel 'Save File' World
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-11-09
Creator Yadong Xie used AI to redraw San Francisco — from the Golden Gate Bridge to downtown — as an isometric pixel world that preserves real building layouts and landmarks, with details that hold up when zoomed in, giving the city the feel of a saved game file.
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