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Sutrito Tower , the microwave antenna array atop Bernal Hill, has been an icon of our neighborhood for generations. Now now you can add a digital model of it to Google Earth to make the virtual 3D map of Bernal Heights even more realistic. For this we must give a nod to Joe Thomas, aka Jobius , the neighborhood gentleman who also gave the tower its quasi-official name . As Joe explains : It's possible to create models in Google Earth using photo textures with an "alpha channel," so you can see through parts of the building. That's exactly what we want here, so I went out to take a few pictures on this beautiful blue-sky weekend. The blue made it easy to "chroma-key" out the background. I only had a good angle on the southwest-facing side of the tower, so I cloned that onto the other sides. I think this exaggerates the number of antennas, but I'm okay with that. You can see the results above. Slick! Want a digital model of Sutrito Tower of your very own so you can zoom about like a virtual red-tailed hawk over Bernal Hill and Cortland dale? Just download a copy of the .kmz file , fire up Google Earth, and away you go. ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Sutrito Tower Now Available for Google Earth
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