Some real aerial photography (slideshow)

[Guest cbuchner1]

Tileproxy will never be THIS good: Michael Collier's Aerial Photography.http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/featur...show/index.htmlhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=10408149Christian

[Geofa 108]

Well I've got thousands of aerial shots myself-and Tileproxy does an amazing job-and I can't see that simming scenery will ever get more real than it!http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpg

[dlhusk 0]

Christian, Thanks for sharing those!Danny

[Guest The Wizard of Oz]

Yes, very nice indeed but a few things to consider:1.These pro photos are not always just point and click. Many are

[Guest pev]

But that's when we (or those who are fortunate enough) can always choose to fly in real life. There is really no comparison to the 'real thing'. However, tileproxy and satellite data providers do get you closer than ever.

[Guest wyoming]

I think the next big step, after TP, would be a decent lighting ala http://www.windwardmark.net/products.php?page=windlight

[Guest dongdongliushui]

I think the bird's eye view of microsoft's virtual earth can almost match the quoted aerial photos in detail. One big plus for VE. If anyone can proxytile that!

[Guest The Wizard of Oz]

Yes, this is the link I was talking about. ThanksWOZ

[Guest The Wizard of Oz]

Oh forgot to mention that Phil Taylor is aware of this and said it was very interesting. Lets hope we might see it with DX10 ;)WOZ

[Guest cbuchner1]

Yes, this WindMark system seems to be a big pile of good shader code, plus a bit of environmental textures for clouds, etc ;)