Google Earth 4.0 Textures Looking Good
Posted Thursday, June 15th, 2006, at 10:42 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Andrew Hudson-Smith at Digitally Distributed Environments has posted some nice work that takes advantage of Google Earth 4.0’s new texturing features to recreate a street full of London row houses. (Hudson-Smith uses his own software to obtain “accurate height/facade data from photographic modelling” and then uses “a camera-calibrated algorithm” to place windows and doors and rapidly create city models.”) As Ogle Earth points out, the result is “very cool.” Now let’s get some avatars into that picture. Close-up after the jump.
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actually, I think it’s important to bell the cat here and say no, these texturse do not look good. They look crappy. The mix of virtual and real is really awful looking. You wish it would go one way or the other. This is not real estate you can sell. These are not homes you can live in.
Only the beginning.