CSS in City

The illustration of the city above is all CSS. There are no images, no SVG, no JavaScript... there isn’t even any HTML!* Here’s the source code on CodePen: (Click on the 1x, 0.5x, and 0.25x buttons...

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CSS in City

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The illustration of the city above is all CSS. There are no images, no SVG, no JavaScript... there isn’t even any HTML!* Here’s the source code on CodePen: (Click on the 1x, 0.5x, and 0.25x buttons to zoom in or out and see more of the illustration. Alternatively, you can also visit the CodePen details page, where you can zoom in/out and resize the window for better results) You may ask “how did you do it?” And the answer will be “with a lot of patience.” I started this CSS Art two years ago, and worked adding small things little by little: a building here, some tree there, a bus stop close by... But, due to personal and professional reasons, I stopped adding things around a year ago, and haven’t touched the code since. I’d love to expand it into a full city someday. Basically, it is all a big collection of CSS gradients: radial, linear, conic... I event used the repeating ones. All of them sized and positioned so they fit within a particular spot in the illustration. This drawing is d

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