I'm sure some one could 'fathom' it out...

@kwistenbiebel said: The way I see it, Google Earth is obsolete since G maps Streetview got mainstream (as said above). I hardly ever use Google Earth but I very often use Maps. Why would I want to download an app (GE), if G Maps does a far more photoreal thing out of the box straight in my browser...? The logical evolution would be seeing technology developed that extracts 3D from both street view input combined with the satellite top view....automatically. The proof of concept is already there (ThomThom posted it somewhere). I really can't imagine the whole world being modeled by hand for Google Earth. It feels old fashioned, will never be completed and to be honest, the current low poly GE models very often look crap. Have you seen Place Pages on Maps yet? You might reconsider the usefulness of geo-located 3d models. Check out this as an example: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=14784564406270036321&q=cathedral%2Bdakar

@mike lucey said: Final clue! The guy in the picture must have asked, 'What's up Doc?' That's funny, it doesn't look like Bugs Bunny.

I love this...too funny.

Nice photos...holidays when'll you coming back...

I would be interested in helping out, seems quite interesting. I sent him an e-mail, I'll see if it's still available

Well, done. As I wrote before, I hope you are happy with your new job!

Beautiful landscape photos, but IMO it's getting a little ridiculous how much HDRI dominates landscape photography. There are good arguments for it: that it requires some fakery to attempt to represent the stunningness of the real world in a 2D LDR image (and after all, all photography is "fake"), but I've gone off landscape images which are too obviously heavily tone mapped/Photoshopped HDRI composites. I wonder if it's here to stay or if it'll look dated in a few years? I like the shopping trolley/Aberdeen Harbour one best, the photographer really managed to make an otherwise dubious subject absolutely beautiful. It reminds me (the subject, not the talent!) of one I took many years ago with my second-hand Sigma 35mm SLR. [image: yfvJ_trolleysmall.jpg]

You must be kidding me? My wife is a nurse too!

That's pretty good, I met one of the Street View drivers at a C-store once, and he did have a pretty long beard...but he wasn't nearly as crabby

The last part of the animation looks like a map of world obesity

As d12 said, Twilight can use SketchUp's sun. It's just that I did the first test with the sun turned off and a completely white sky for a moody, monochrome look. Twilight has several render presets available. Some of them work similar to Indigo/Maxwell/Fry and are called "unbiased"; others work similar to V-ray/Mental Ray and are called "biased". For the first test I used an unbiased preset, Easy 09. For the following one I used a biased one. I also turned off the light for a change, and enabled the physical sky + sun with some tweaks to their default values. Lastly, I did some post-production in the freeware app Motiva RealCamera, trying to simulate an Agfacolor camera. [image: Usqn_Agfacolor-HDC200plus.jpg] UPDATE: I'm cooking another one with Easy 09, wait for it...

Tricky

Itd be worth PMing Jim, i think he's looking for work at the moment, and he's certainly qualified to advise you on your project.

superb

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Well, I sent a confirming PM to Eric not too much after he posted this. I haven't heard back ever since.

Yes I am really looking forward to meeting Mateo. I will love all the conversation. No earplugs required. Thanks so much for signing up.

Also, play around with the font size at the top right. [image: 9Gq3_Fontsize.jpg]

Bride of Frankenstein, 2009. Elsa Lanchester had cooler hair however. [image: 2eT4_Brideoffrankenstein.jpg]