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I tried using some of the more exotic camera types for earth surface
renders and came up with this. It is a view from above onto the surface
using a fisheye camera (viewing angle just above 180 deg. so the sky is
well visible.
Location is 36.5 deg. north, 111.8 deg. west - you can see the Grand
Canyon on the lower left and Lake Powell on the upper right. The image
looks probably better when rotated 90 deg. to the right but i wanted to
keep the north=up orientation.
See also: http://maps.google.com/?ll=36.5,-111.8&spn=1.5,2&t=k
Christoph
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"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmx de> wrote in message
news:drai6e$o48$1@chho.imagico.de...
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> I tried using some of the more exotic camera types for earth surface
> renders and came up with this. It is a view from above onto the surface
> using a fisheye camera (viewing angle just above 180 deg. so the sky is
> well visible.
>
> Location is 36.5 deg. north, 111.8 deg. west - you can see the Grand
> Canyon on the lower left and Lake Powell on the upper right. The image
> looks probably better when rotated 90 deg. to the right but i wanted to
> keep the north=up orientation.
>
> See also: http://maps.google.com/?ll=36.5,-111.8&spn=1.5,2&t=k
>
> Christoph
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>
That look fantastic.
Have you done the fly-through of the Grand Canyon on Google Earth?
Chris B.
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Christoph Hormann wrote:
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> I tried using some of the more exotic camera types for earth surface
> renders and came up with this. It is a view from above onto the surface
> using a fisheye camera (viewing angle just above 180 deg. so the sky is
> well visible.
>
> Location is 36.5 deg. north, 111.8 deg. west - you can see the Grand
> Canyon on the lower left and Lake Powell on the upper right. The image
> looks probably better when rotated 90 deg. to the right but i wanted to
> keep the north=up orientation.
>
> See also: http://maps.google.com/?ll=36.5,-111.8&spn=1.5,2&t=k
Fantastic work. Is it just me or does the landscape look inverted? Or s
this an effect created by the camera? For example the river in the lower
right looks to be raised up and casts long shadows on the landscape.
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Chris B wrote:
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> That look fantastic.
Thanks.
> Have you done the fly-through of the Grand Canyon on Google Earth?
Last time i checked Google Earth was a Windows-only program...
Christoph
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Thomas Lake wrote:
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> Fantastic work. Is it just me or does the landscape look inverted? Or s
> this an effect created by the camera? For example the river in the lower
> right looks to be raised up and casts long shadows on the landscape.
Short answer: it is just you. ;-)
Long answer: we are quite used to the light coming from the upper left
in such images - therefore satellite images from the northern hemisphere
commonly appear inverted. You can either try to get used to it and
mentally 'reinvert' it or simply rotate the image 90 deg. to the right
as i suggested.
Christoph
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> Last time i checked Google Earth was a Windows-only program...
Check again...
Ray
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> > Last time i checked Google Earth was a Windows-only program...
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> Check again...
Wow. Now it is for MacOS X too. That doesn't alter the root issue...
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I haven't been to Lake Powell in years. So THAT'S what it looks like from
above.
Is the "air glow" part of the satellite image? Or did you add that?
Ken
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Kenneth wrote:
> I haven't been to Lake Powell in years. So THAT'S what it looks like from
> above.
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> Is the "air glow" part of the satellite image? Or did you add that?
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You mean the bright sky near the sun direction? That's scattering media.
Christoph
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