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Title: Pier Head 2089

URL: https://infographics.inkbyte.co.uk/pier-head-2089/

Markdown: https://infographics.inkbyte.co.uk/pier-head-2089.md

Description: A living pixel-art Liverpool waterfront at night in 2089, seen across the Mersey in the rain. Built to loop for hours.

Experiment

# Pier Head 2089

A living pixel-art Liverpool waterfront, drawn entirely in code. Airships, ships on the Mersey, a working radar desk and clocks on real UK time. Turn the sound up.

River Mersey, live UK time, day four of the rain. Drawn at 640×360 and scaled up by whole numbers, so every pixel stays square.

![Pixel-art night scene of the Liverpool waterfront in the rain, seen across the River Mersey: red dock cranes on the left, the clock tower and domed waterfront buildings lit up in the middle, neon signs and towers on the right, and a container ship on the dark river.](https://infographics.inkbyte.co.uk/pier-head-2089/og/pier-head-2089.jpg)

The page is an animated scene, so this copy only describes it. Open the page to watch it: [Pier Head 2089](https://infographics.inkbyte.co.uk/pier-head-2089/)

### Controls

- Fullscreen (F)
- Hide HUD or show HUD (V)
- Console view (C)
- Hide for capture (H)
- Mute music (M)
- On phones: swipe to pan along the river, or use Tilt to pan.

### Music

Tubby by Spoolz.

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