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Imaginary Tubes

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Imaginary Tubes is a procedural generation project that aims to create, as its name suggests, fictional subway maps inspired by the London Underground map. The Twitter account displays a new map each number of hours.

Imaginary Tubes is written in Javascript, using Fabric.js to generate the image, and Tracery to generate the station names.

It began as a Glitch project, but after Glitch changed the allowances for the free tier, I wrote a Docker script, and I run it in my home as a Docker container. A local cron ensures that the project tweets regularly.