Anomalies
As I’ve mentioned before, gazing lovingly at Google Earth is something I do a lot. One thing I like is when the satellite images they use are pieced together and form some sort of weird perspective anomalies. Here’s three of them that I found while looking at Chicago last night (click the images for full size):
I also enjoyed this one, with the two images taken at different times of year: west of the train tracks, the trees are all bare, while the east side is lovely and summery.
And, slightly off topic, but it popped into my head when I was typing the word at the top of this entry; if you’re stuck for a good book to read, I thoroughly recommend “The Anomalies” by Joey Goebel.
I think most of these are aerial rather than satelite pics, as a satelite would never take photos at such an angle as to show the builds like that. If you do the napkin-maths (I did) then you’re talking about a satelite with something like only an 800mm lens and a sensor of many hundreds of gigapixels in order to catch buildings at that angle at that resolution. I’ll take my geek hat off now.
ed
4 Mar 07 at 12:56 pm
Good point. And, nice hat.
Craig
4 Mar 07 at 1:19 pm
this word is haunting me at the moment – looks like a good book
Anonymous
7 Mar 07 at 12:12 pm
http://www.martin-munoz.com/recent/index.html
Anonymous
7 Mar 07 at 2:42 pm
Oooh, lovely.
Craig
30 Mar 07 at 11:28 am