Google Earth blend 3D with 2D

[Bob369963]

Clement Valla's Postcards from Google Earth blend 3D with 2D, look freaky

By Tim Stevens posted Mar 10th 2011 9:40AM

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The satellite imagery used in Google Earth is captured in 2D. The terrain that it covers is rendered in 3D. Sometimes those disparate layers don't line up, and sometimes those results can be quite compelling. Artist Clement Valla has collected some of the most striking examples in an online gallery called "Postcards from Google Earth, Bridges." It's 60 images from around the virtual globe, pictures that are occasionally janky, occasionally boring, but often quite moving in a Salvador Dali sort of way. Our favorite is above, but feel free to share yours in comments below.

 

[badaaang]

That would be an easy way of limiting speed on highway

 

[RainMotorsports]

LOL This is what happens when you overlay a 2D image onto a 3D surface. Obviously the highway was build over the elevation changes not along it.