Video: The distorted reality of Google Earth on postcards by Clement Valla
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The advent of Google Earth has made the world more open than ever to billions of people on our planet. But sometimes the images provided by this service can be called nothing but incidents. Here are some of these images and collected by artist Clement Valla (Clement Valla) in series of postcards "Postcards from Google Earth: Bridges".
Google Earth is trying to show us the planet Earth not only in a flat version, but also in three-dimensional. To do this, many enthusiasts create three-dimensional models of buildings in cities themselves. And the program itself also shows the features of the relief.
It's just that a flat image obtained from satellites is superimposed on these drops in the earth's surface. This gives such distortions of the picture that some of them are already something very interesting in themselves.
Clement Valla, apparently, spends more than one hour a day, looking at our planet through Google Earth. And while doing this, he also collects the most interesting images he has seen. For example, curvatures occurring due to the unevenness of the relief in a particular place in the world.
Particularly "unlucky" with these curvatures of road infrastructure objects - the roads themselves, bridges, tunnels, multi-level interchanges. Of course, in reality they are linear, but Google Earth does not take into account reality, it only takes into account the relief. Therefore, objects of monstrous shape are obtained from flat roads and bridges, if you look at them with the help of the mentioned product of Google Corporation.
Well, the artist Clement Valla collected so many such images that he decided to release them in a mass version. He created the 4 "by 6" Postcards from Google Earth: Bridges series of postcards and successfully trades them over the Internet.
However, there are many other ways to become famous using Google Earth. For example, create a giant "Hello, world!" using a matrix code, as did the German artist Bernd Hopfengaertner.
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