Tuesday, February 21

Surreal image

Normally, the Google Earth trick of taking altitude data from radar surveys and mapping aerial and satellite photographs on top has the neat effect of making the terrain look three dimensional. Sometimes, however, the radar map misses something and, when it draws the flat image onto the contoured terrain layer, you get a result like the one below:

From the Arizona Road Trip

Posted by Milan at 12:31 AM  

3 Comments

  1. Anonymous posted at 9:24 PM, February 20, 2006  
    Tristan took this photo from beside that dam.
  2. B posted at 1:33 AM, February 21, 2006  
    Google Earth is an accidental Dali.
  3. Anonymous posted at 4:02 AM, February 21, 2006  
    The shading and colouration make that look like a screenshot from Half Life 2.

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