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Feb 21
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Tilt Shift Maker: Free Tilt Shift Image Editing for Mini Cities

By Google Earth, Tilt Shift Photography, Virtual Earth

Tilt Shift photography is perfect for creating pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Thankfully you no longer need an expensive lens or a moderate level of expertise with Photoshop to make them thanks to Tilt Shift Maker.

Tilt Shift Maker is a free service that allows you to upload photographs up to 4Mb in size or 4096 x 4096 resolution and set the size/area of blur to create the tilt shift effect. Once your happy with your creation simply click ‘download’ to get a full size tilt shift image back.

Its a really neat service and completely free, you can use any photograph but oblique angles work well for tilt shift, as such Google Earth or Virtual Earth are perfect for trying out the effect.

See http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

For more examples see our post on Tilt Shift Mini City Videos

Feb 20
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Google Earth Night Lights Movie

By Google Earth


Google Earth 5 is impressive – its allows movies to be made in minutes that before would of taken a couple of days in a high end 3d package. The movie below was captured in real-time using the Sun Cycle combined with NASA’s night time imagery.

The addition of day time imagery to the clip would be a simple case of re-recording using a fixed flightpath and superimposing with the standard earth view. However, we really like the lighting effects of the night cycle combined with the city lights thus the rough cut below:


Google Earth NASA Night from digitalurban on Vimeo.

As a contrast our movie of population density in the UK, below, was visualized in After Effects and took around 3 hours to complete. If we had imported it into Google Earth we could of gained a similar effect in a few minutes.


Visualising Data: UK Population One Light per 200 People from digitalurban on Vimeo.

Music is by a rather good unsigned band – Lemonade Joe.

Feb 20
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Google Earth Night Lights Movie

By Google Earth


Google Earth 5 is impressive – its allows movies to be made in minutes that before would of taken a couple of days in a high end 3d package. The movie below was captured in real-time using the Sun Cycle combined with NASA’s night time imagery.

The addition of day time imagery to the clip would be a simple case of re-recording using a fixed flightpath and superimposing with the standard earth view. However, we really like the lighting effects of the night cycle combined with the city lights thus the rough cut below:


Google Earth NASA Night from digitalurban on Vimeo.

As a contrast our movie of population density in the UK, below, was visualized in After Effects and took around 3 hours to complete. If we had imported it into Google Earth we could of gained a similar effect in a few minutes.


Visualising Data: UK Population One Light per 200 People from digitalurban on Vimeo.

Music is by a rather good unsigned band – Lemonade Joe.

Feb 20
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Atlantis Found in Google Earth?

By Atlantis, Google Earth


Google Earth 5.0 includes a view of the ocean bed and as such it allows global access to data that before its release was only available to specialist communities. As such it allows anyone in the world to look at put forward their own analysis which in turn opens up possible new discoveries – such as the possible finding of ‘Altantis‘ in an area area known as the Madeira Abyssal Plane.

Discovered by spotted by aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford as he browsed through Google Ocean the layout certainly appears man made and does open up questions of a lost city on the seabed.

The feature is quite notiable in Google Earth – you can zoom in direct with our file Atlantis.kml (right click to ‘save as’ and then open in Google Earth).

You can read full details in The Sun – we like the way they have manged to include a picture of Patrick Duffy with the story…

***Update***

As commented by M@ the Daily Mail are now running the view that ‘the photo, taken using Google’s latest gadget, Google Ocean, is nothing more than thin bands of sonar data collected by boats mapping the ocean floor’ – the see The Daily Mail for full info.

We still like to think its a lost city found by the power of the crowd…. 🙂

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