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Jerry's Map (jerrysmap.com)
94 points by turtleyacht 1 hour ago
https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/this-man-has-been-drawin...
6 comments

There's a good People Make Games video about this from a few days ago

https://youtu.be/Is8N7B9b0GQ

You know, it'd have been amazing if TFA has not opened with that video. So instead of clicking the link to view TFA, you went off and dug up the exact same link in TFA???
The most Borgesian thing to ever be posted on HN.
From the first sentence and image on jerrysmap.com I seriously thought it was Jerry Garcia's doing for a second.
Looks like the OG fortnite map to me
People Make Games just did a terrific documentary on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ&pp=0gcJCUECo7VqN5t...
It would make an interesting map generation algorithm that could feed the card data and specified map tiles into an image gen AI system that would have to take the map tiles and try to follow the rules.
As I was coming back to the thread, I was dreading someone might be making this submission about AI. I miss HN from before it became AIN and other types of intellectual curiosity were drained out.

What’s marvellous about this work is the antithesis of AI and computers, the artist and the process are what’s fascinating about it. Generative map and art programs are a dime a dozen. Those have value in their own way, but it’s different from this. There’s no need to conflate the two, most things do not need or benefit from AI.

Can't feed Jerry to the ai though
If he's been blogging as long as it says, he's already part of the collective
Does every single thing need to be about AI? Really?