diff --git a/examples/tilejson.html b/examples/tilejson.html
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+<html>
+  <link rel="stylesheet" href="vendor/leaflet.css" />
+  <style>
+    #map, html, body {
+      width: 100%; height: 100%; padding: 0; margin: 0;
+    }
+  </style>
+  <body>
+    <div id="map"></div>
+
+    <script src="vendor/leaflet.js"></script>
+    <script src="../dist/torque.full.uncompressed.js"></script>
+
+
+    <script>
+      // define the torque layer style using cartocss
+      var CARTOCSS = [
+          'Map {',
+          '-torque-time-attribute: "date";',
+          '-torque-aggregation-function: "count(cartodb_id)";',
+          '-torque-frame-count: 760;',
+          '-torque-animation-duration: 15;',
+          '-torque-resolution: 2',
+          '}',
+          '#layer {',
+          '  marker-width: 3;',
+          '  marker-fill-opacity: 0.8;',
+          '  marker-fill: #FEE391; ',
+          '  comp-op: "lighten";',
+          '  [value > 2] { marker-fill: #FEC44F; }',
+          '  [value > 3] { marker-fill: #FE9929; }',
+          '  [value > 4] { marker-fill: #EC7014; }',
+          '  [value > 5] { marker-fill: #CC4C02; }',
+          '  [value > 6] { marker-fill: #993404; }',
+          '  [value > 7] { marker-fill: #662506; }',
+          '  [frame-offset = 1] { marker-width: 10; marker-fill-opacity: 0.05;}',
+          '  [frame-offset = 2] { marker-width: 15; marker-fill-opacity: 0.02;}',
+          '}'
+      ].join('\n');
+
+        
+      var map = new L.Map('map', {
+        zoomControl: true,
+        center: [40, 0],
+        zoom: 3
+      });
+
+      L.tileLayer('http://{s}.api.cartocdn.com/base-dark/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
+        attribution: 'CartoDB'
+      }).addTo(map);
+
+      var torqueLayer = new L.TorqueLayer({
+        tileJSON: "http://localhost:4000/examples/tilejson.json",
+        cartocss: CARTOCSS
+      });
+      torqueLayer.error(function(err){
+        for(error in err){
+          console.warn(err[error]);
+        }
+      });
+      torqueLayer.addTo(map);
+      torqueLayer.play()
+    </script>
+  </body>
+</html>
+
diff --git a/examples/tilejson.json b/examples/tilejson.json
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+{
+    "start": -1796072400000,
+    "end": -1414843200000,
+    "resolution": 2,
+    "data_steps": 861786,
+    "column_type": "date",
+    "tiles": ["http://{s}.ashbu.cartocdn.com/viz2/api/v1/map/cf28c540d3cf15a29a759f84ff440679:0/0/{z}/{x}/{y}.json.torque"]
+}
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