"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message 
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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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