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Clement Found These Google Earth Mess-Ups. Enjoy! :)
Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation
of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. (Wikipedia)
Clement Valla writes, "3D Images like those in Google Earth are generated
through a process called texture mapping. Texture mapping is a technology
developed by Ed Catmull in the 1970?s. In 3D modeling, a texture map is a
flat image that gets applied to the surface of a 3D model, like a label on
a can or a bottle of soda."
"The Universal Texture is a Google patent for mapping textures onto a 3D model
of the entire globe. At its core the Universal Texture is just an optimal way
to generate a texture map of the earth. As its name implies, the Universal
Texture promises a drone-like uninterrupted navigation of our planet - not a
tiled series of discrete maps, but a flowing and fluid experience."
"The Universal Texture and its attendant database algorithms are trained on a
few basic qualitative traits - no clouds, high contrast, shallow depth,
daylight photos."
"It is precisely because humans did not directly create these images that
they are so fascinating. They are created by an algorithm that finds nothing
wrong in these moments. They are less a creation, than a kind of fact - a
representation of the laws of the Universal Texture. As a collection the
anomalies are a weird natural history of Google Earth's software. They are
strange new typologies, representative of a particular digital process... In
these anomalies we understand there are competing inputs, competing data
sources and discrepancy in the data. The world is not so fluid after all."
(Following Are Images by Google Earth | Found by Clement Valla)
Bronx, New York, USA
Imaging by Google Earth | Found by Clement Valla
Los Angeles, California, USA
Niagara Falls
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
Switzerland
Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge,
Arizona/Nevada
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
George Washington Bridge, New York/New Jersey
Rome, Italy
Kansas, USA
Imaging by Google Earth | Found by Clement Valla
Colorado, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
Imaging by Google Earth | Found by Clement Valla
Los Angeles, California, USA
Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Bronx, New York, USA
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