by porphyra on 8/27/21, 9:41 PM
Blending the colors in Photoshop manually seems very tedious.
The open source Enblend/Enfuse, which ships as part of the open source panorama stitching software Hugin, does it automatically and seamlessly.
http://enblend.sourceforge.net/
by 4g on 8/28/21, 6:15 AM
by mdpm on 8/27/21, 8:56 PM
by changoplatanero on 8/27/21, 11:09 PM
When I was a google intern in 2013 I downloaded the raw google maps satellite images for all of the United States. I stitched it together into one giant high resolution image. The plan was to get it printed big enough to cover an entire wall. That ended up being too expensive though and nothing ever happened.
by jubjubbird on 8/27/21, 9:37 PM
by sci_prog on 8/27/21, 10:09 PM
Kind of related. I used similar data to produce an Augmented Reality version of the (almost) entire Hawaiian Island chain with both topography and bathymetry:
https://youtu.be/m0fB4wrvgeY
by mdp2021 on 8/28/21, 9:38 AM
by TaylorAlexander on 8/27/21, 8:18 PM
Looks nice! I noticed that at the bottom of the page there is an e-mail sign up box that says:
"Don't See Your Favorite Place? Know when we release new maps."
Now I know e-mail sign up forms usually come canned in a bit of javascript, but it sure seems like it would help if people signing up could also include a place they would like to see. I'm not in the market for this kind of thing but I was hoping they would have the San Francisco Bay Area on there. Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay would be cool too. Definitely want the bathymetry on those ones. I thought the bathymetry was a nice touch.
by oleh on 8/28/21, 9:21 AM
It would be even more awesome if a terrain elevation map was milled into the wood before painting/printing! Definitely would buy, especially from Big Island or Kaua’i! :-)
by darknavi on 8/27/21, 8:43 PM
I'd love to request an area (USVI, St. John specifically).
These look great. I love the insights on the tuning process and it's nice to know it isn't just a lazy cropping.
by jareklupinski on 8/27/21, 8:12 PM
so cool; seeing the evolution of the piece and thought put into the process, from sentinel source image to wall-worthy art, adds a lot
by benboughton1 on 8/27/21, 10:22 PM
I had an idea to sort of automate this process or even a user aided wizard as a product but never to round to the mvp. Still an ok idea I think as satellite imagery on wall is great talking point. It can be beautiful, dramatic, always changing so makes for sets of images showing changes etc
by sillycross on 8/27/21, 8:20 PM
It seems like the last "Improving the color" step is what gives most of the atheistic effects (by comparing the second last picture and the final result on the top).
Unfortunately the explanation for that step is only a few sentences..
by cycomanic on 8/28/21, 10:06 AM
For the lucky guys/gals from NZ, there are high quality cloud free arial images freely available from linz. In particular check out basemaps.linz.govt.nz/
The images are already blended so much of the work is done.
by abainbridge on 8/28/21, 8:59 AM
Nice. Is anyone doing the same but with more focus on Europe? Lake Geneva or Lake Garda with the surrounding mountains would make a nice scene.
by notreallyhere00 on 8/28/21, 6:45 AM
Love it but they don’t have any of my fav areas and while I’ll submit a request - anyone know any similar websites that I can look at?