Jerry's Map

(jerrysmap.com)

156 points | by turtleyacht 2 hours ago

7 comments

  • mdtrooper 9 minutes ago
    I know Jerry Map (I hope that someday will be a exposition in Spain) because I love it, I love the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art. The people who maybe mad and they built a world with own rules.

    I remember the book of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress or Cataclysm DDA .

  • archermarks 1 hour ago
    There's a good People Make Games video about this from a few days ago

    https://youtu.be/Is8N7B9b0GQ

    • dylan604 50 minutes ago
      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???
      • falcor84 2 minutes ago
        Oh, I see that there's two TFAs. The one in the description has the video, but this main one doesn't - http://www.jerrysmap.com/the-map
      • tarvaina 3 minutes ago
        The main linked article actually does not have that video; the article linked from in the description does have it. Not surprising that someone missed it.
      • Tepix 2 minutes ago
        For me it doesn't. Perhaps it's a cookie setting? Anyway, lovely video.
  • wanderer2323 1 hour ago
    The most Borgesian thing to ever be posted on HN.
  • jihadjihad 1 hour ago
    From the first sentence and image on jerrysmap.com I seriously thought it was Jerry Garcia's doing for a second.
  • vannfreed 1 hour ago
    Looks like the OG fortnite map to me
  • spencerflem 1 hour ago
    People Make Games just did a terrific documentary on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ&pp=0gcJCUECo7VqN5t...
  • RobKohr 1 hour ago
    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.
    • dabinat 44 minutes ago
      As I get older I’ve come to realize more and more how bad instant gratification is. There’s value and mental health benefits in doing things that are slow and take time and effort.
    • brm 1 hour ago
      Can't feed Jerry to the ai though
      • criddell 33 minutes ago
        When articles like this are published along with photos and videos, in a way it is feeding Jerry to the AI.
      • foobarian 1 hour ago
        If he's been blogging as long as it says, he's already part of the collective
    • latexr 51 minutes ago
      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.

    • dmd 1 hour ago
      Does every single thing need to be about AI? Really?
      • NBJack 46 minutes ago
        I mean, to be fair, some "super resolution" solutions for image generation do subdivide things into tiles to be re-done at a higher fidelity.