Tiny Casablanca is an interactive, seamless isometric pixel-art map of downtown Casablanca (Centre-Ville), Morocco. Inspired by Boris Starkov's tiny.london and Andy Coenen's isometric.nyc, it transforms architectural geometry into a living 16-bit retro universe.
Technical Architecture
- Isometric Camera: Single orthographic frustum tilted 45° and rotated 15° (Screen-up is N15°E).
- Resolution: 0.35 meters per pixel covering a 2.0 km² historic downtown core ($5,632 \times 4,096$ native canvas).
- Stylization: Gemini / Nano Banana AI engine conditioned with structural fidelity constraints and authentic Mediterranean limestone palettes.
- Seam-Free Blending: Multi-window tent weighting and street-aligned composite stitching.
- Tile Pyramid: Deep Zoom Image (DZI) multi-resolution lossless WebP tiles with OpenSeadragon.
Credits & Licensing
- Map imagery & styling © 2026 Tiny Casablanca Project.
- Geographical data & boundary coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Viewer powered by OpenSeadragon (BSD-3-Clause).
- Inspired by tiny.london by Boris Starkov and isometric.nyc by Andy Coenen.
