Somewhere, above.

The downtown clock starts at 30 city minutes per real second: a full day in 48 seconds. Below it, << halves and >> doubles the time rate, clamped at 1 city second per real second and 2 city hours per real second. The unavailable direction is disabled at either limit. These controls affect the clock and daylight, not car speed or signal clearance. Drag around the clock face to wind forward or backward (one revolution is 12 hours), or scroll by 15 minutes. Automatic clock movement pauses while dragging. Arrow keys adjust one minute; Shift + arrow adjusts 15 minutes; Page Up/Down adjusts one hour. Home selects sunrise at 06:00, End sunset at 21:00. The readout uses 24-hour time. Winding changes daylight and daily routines, not the physical history of cars. Original city-branded dials and architectural cases evoke local town clocks, architecture and music; they are not Rolex products or replicas. Paris is atelier classic, Munich traditional Rathaus, Istanbul Bosphorus ornament, Seattle industrial punk, New York Art Deco, London Westminster and Ibiza Balearic modern.

The full HH:MM:SS digital clock stays visible at every speed, between the slower and faster buttons. The multiplier near the dial shows the exact time rate. To keep fast hands calm, the second hand is shown through 5× time and the minute hand through 300× (five city minutes per real second); faster hands disappear. The hour hand stays visible. Slow down to restore the other hands. System reduced-motion preference starts playback paused.

Playback defaults to 30 FPS. Each new roll chooses a stable paper tilt within its city's range: Somewhere −3° to −1°, Paris −5° to −2°, Munich −1° to 1°, Istanbul 1° to 4°, Seattle −4° to −1°, New York 1° to 3°, London −2° to 0°, and Ibiza 2° to 5°. The city keeps its object scale; only the paper rotates. Full-screen mode remains level.

Sunrise is fixed at 06:00 and sunset at 21:00 for this miniature, with twilight on either side. The sun travels east to west (world east is right before camera rotation), casting long opposite shadows near the horizon and shorter shadows at midday. This is an idealized summer day, not date-, latitude- or weather-specific astronomy. Household lights gradually go out toward bedtime; streetlights remain on for safety.

Drivers and riders use a hand-coded driving policy informed by official guidance, not a trained model or a real driving qualification. They keep a two-second following gap, observe signals and pedestrian phases, reserve clear junction exits, signal turns, and plan legal routes to their own family homes. Blocked roads trigger another route at a junction, never a pavement shortcut or an oncoming-lane escape. These two-way streets have only one lane per direction, so passing and motorcycle filtering are conservatively disabled in every city. Bikes accelerate briskly but share the same modeled residential speed ceiling. Night arrivals park at home while fewer new journeys begin.

Driving references: Highway Code: junctions, clear exits and turning; Highway Code: spacing and residential driving; Washington motorcycle lane rules. Conservative shared rules are used where local law varies; this is not a complete legal model of any city.

Only the selected choice is shown at rest. Drag freely and release to snap to the nearest option; scrolling commits after a brief pause. Previews do not resize or regenerate the city. Escape cancels an unfinished selection. Click city, film or FPS to shuffle, or use arrow keys to choose. The size dial grows by 100 px from 100 to 1000 px, followed by Full screen. Home selects 100 px; End selects Full screen. Bigger views reveal more streets and journeys, never enlarged cars, buildings or pedestrians. The default print is 600 px; wide prints scroll inside their frame on smaller screens. Full screen uses the available browser window with header and footer controls, not browser F11. Choose a numeric size or press Escape to leave Full screen. Town notes and governor diagnostics remain available in its footer drawer. Frame rate and view size do not change simulation speed.

Traffic is automatically tuned: a 25% motorcycle draw, personal cruising paces and a soft original generative score. New insertions forecast four seconds ahead; crowded clicks can still overwhelm braking. Crashes block nearby lanes, not the whole city, and only then dispatch a rescue helicopter. Homes and nearby journeys are procedural and recycled outside the camera's neighborhood; the homecoming count records arrivals actually simulated this roll.

The City Chronicle records actual simulated events, newest first, in an observer's voice. Its counters cover this roll: people drowned, vehicles involved in collisions, wrecks delivered to the junkyard and helicopter sorties begun. The journal keeps the latest 120 entries while counters continue accumulating. New roll, a destination change or revisiting the landmark starts a fresh journal. On narrow screens it sits below the print, or folds into the full-screen footer.

Two embedded Web Workers handle Chronicle aggregation and media preparation (film-grain textures and WAV synthesis). The main thread owns traffic, input, drawing and the journal's DOM updates. Chronicle updates are batched; old-roll records and superseded textures cannot overwrite the current roll. Texture requests keep only one active job and the newest pending job. Workers require a modern browser with Web Workers and OffscreenCanvas; failures are shown beside the journal rather than silently moving heavy work back to the game thread.

Every road over a finite river has a connected bridge, including north/south roads. Oceanfront roads cannot bridge an endless sea. Exposed banks have depth; pedestrians and wrecks can fall. Falls use gravity, crashes use mass-based impulses and ground friction, and rescue flight accelerates and brakes. Splash particles and ripples are clipped to open water, never land or bridges. This is a small stylized physics model, not a real-world driving simulator.

All 20 X100VI film modes, including ACROS and Monochrome filter variants, are represented by original palette approximations. These are not Fujifilm's proprietary simulations. Film grading also colors the paper and interface.

The cities are endless, reseeded impressions, not navigable maps. Landmarks recur as the camera travels. All junctions have vehicle and pedestrian signal phases; London uses left-hand traffic.

The blue motorcycle is a tiny top-view interpretation of a 2023 Harley-Davidson Sportster S: fat tires, blue tank, low seat and twin high-side exhausts. All audio is original, synthesized locally. Enable sound with an interaction; pause or mute silences it.

References: Fujifilm manual; Louvre; Eiffel Tower; Munich gardens; Frauenkirche; Istanbul; Seattle waterfront; Space Needle; Central Park; London; Ibiza.