London, drawn

Data Drop London, drawn Zones 1 to 4My favourite city in the world, made like a painting so it can be read like one.

Tile numbers on. Point at a patch that looks wrong and note the number, then tell me. Press Q to turn it off. —

Drag to move, scroll to zoom, click a marker to open it buildingcollectionpass through

What is a Biopsy?

A finished Data Drop, put on the table and cut open. Every decision, every number, every mistake, and the exact words we sent the AI.

Biopsy №4 is this map. Two weeks of it: the styles we threw away, the 61 squares we had to draw twice, all 840 joins measured, and the two days in Photoshop nobody wants to talk about.

The map and everything on it is free. The Biopsy is for members.

Read Biopsy №4

Getting around

The map is rotated 104.7° and tilted 45°, the way it was rendered. The compass points north.

drag: move
wheel or pinch: zoom
double click: zoom in
/: search a building, a postcode or a place
K: every building, as a list
Q: show the square numbers
esc: clear the marker
one finger: move around
two fingers: zoom in and out
double tap: zoom in
tap a marker: open that building
the search box: find a building, a postcode or a place
183, up top: every building, as a list

What the markers mean

a building you can open
something that holds a collection: a museum, a gallery, a library
something you pass through: a station, a bridge
green means you are pointing at it

And when the map runs out: I also make Long Story Short, a daily word game. One sentence, keep the five words that tell the story.

editing — click a mosaic

tool

pattern for texture, not colour

— none captured

mode

brush [ ] to resize

size 16 soft 0

paint colour

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click a swatch to paint with it · alt-click to target it

recolour

— pick a tone (I)

↓ becomes ↓

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tolerance ±18

history ⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z

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