Turn a trip into a pixel-art road fly-through
Jon Wheatley's Pixel Path skill has Claude Code turn real roads into pixel-art fly-throughs; the author reports Bath to Bristol cost $5.76 and Kyoto $0.72.
Done with Claude Code
What they did
Jon Wheatley built Pixel Path, an add-on skill for Claude Code. It turns a trip between two places into a scrolling pixel-art fly-through of the real road. Claude plans the route with free mapping services. It pulls buildings, land types and hill heights from OpenStreetMap and Amazon's terrain data. It draws scenery with an image tool called RetroDiffusion. Then it checks its own screenshots and redoes bad pictures. The user picks a detail level after seeing a cost estimate.
How it went
The author reports Bath to Bristol cost $5.76 for 32 pictures. Kyoto Station to Kinkaku-ji cost $0.72 for four. Both passed the full self-check, across 627 and 345 frames. In testing, 10% to 34% of pictures had to be redone.
Worth knowing
The author suggests adding about 25% to the estimate for redone pictures. The RetroDiffusion link on the project page earns the author a referral fee. A placeholder-only level costs nothing.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
Make me a pixel path from [start place] to [end place]. Route the trip and bake the map and elevation data. Then print the cost estimate for the placeholders, sparse, moderate and detailed levels, and wait for me to pick one and confirm a budget of [budget] before generating any paid art. Never ask me for the API key. After building, run the layout check and screenshot sweep. Re-roll bad pictures within the budget, and show me the worst frames before calling it done.
Swap the highlighted [parts] for your own details.
Source: GitHub · jonwheatley · Oct 12, 2026
Written with AI assistance from the original post and checked against our editorial guidelines. Results are as reported by the source, not independently verified.
