Hand-drawn sketch of an isometric city on an island with buildings, trees, streets, and a "thalida.com" sign, with handwritten notes about street placement rules

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✅ Todos

  • Buy / Create 3D buildings
  • Update site performance
  • Take screenshots to update notion build log

🧠🌩 Brainstorm

City Generation

BUILDINGS

  • Buildings age based on the age of the file
    • eg. A modern building for a new file
    • eg. A victorian building for a an old file
  • Grime / damage on a building based on last modified date
    • the cleaner the building the most recently the file was updated
  • The style / type of building is based on the type of file
    • eg. a readme could be a library?

STREETS

  • Each street is the name of a folder
  • The width of the street is based on the number of files / directories nested in it

🎨 Design

Inspiration

Code City by Thalida Noel

Paper Sketches

Sketch of an isometric city on an island with buildings, trees, and handwritten notes about street edge gaps, alternating sides, and fit-to-grid rulesSketch exploring building types and people figures for the city, with notes about 3D buildings representing file types and people representing viewers
Sketch of a directory-as-grid layout with nested rectangles representing folders, blue squares as files, and notes about directory thickness mapping to road width