Turning Google Earth into SimCity 2000! (From Light to Pixels to...)

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Claim: real aerial footage can be turned into SimCity 2000–style views by reprojecting pixels rather than doing heavy vision. Method: change one line in Mapbox to make FOV tiny, or take a row from every frame of a moving camera and stack them — simple pseudocode and a small viewer that treats video as an X Y time volume produce orthographic projection and parallel rays effects. Resulting images match satellite scanner artifacts and the tool works on drones and Google Earth.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:47Rendering
3. 3:51Parallel Projection
4. 5:12Pseudocode
5. 6:35Exploring Videos
6. 7:43Philosophy
7. 8:14Paul Ryan
8. 9:21Conclusion

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