5月11日
Stephen Hawking in Photosynth and a house fire in Birds Eye
Every 6 months or so I like to post something about rotating your view in Birds Eye mode for the new readers wandering through. Rotation is one of the coolest, but least discoverable, features in Virtual Earth. People who are inclined to poke around in a UI will discover that in Birds Eye mode the thing that looks like a traditional compass control actually rotates your view North, East, South, West, yielding not 1 but four unique views at each point on earth where coverage exists. This sequence of images of a house fire shown at Birds Eye Tourist illustrates this well. To capture the Birds Eye scenes, a low flying plane with five cameras mounted needed to cris-cross the sky in very tight formation. It takes some time for the plane to return in the opposite direction which is the reason for the steady progression of images through time, in this case showing before during and after fire damage.
To round out your Friday, check out this image of Stephen Hawking in Piazza San Marco in Photosynth.
Currently Obstacle 1 by Interpol is playing