{"id":1736,"date":"2009-03-16T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/portuguese-bend-3d\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:28:11","slug":"portuguese-bend-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/portuguese-bend-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Bend 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/portugese-bend.png' title='Portuguese Bend'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/portugese-bend.thumbnail.png' alt='Portuguese Bend' class='right' \/><\/a>I did not actually take an aerial photo of <strong>Portuguese Bend<\/strong> to get this 3D image, although it would be possible from a moving aircraft. Rather, I made it from a pair of screen captures using <strong>Google Earth<\/strong> to view the terrain along the southern coast of the <strong>Palos Verdes Peninsula<\/strong>. I took each captured image from a slightly different vantage point by moving the image laterally.<\/p>\n<p>I think this image gives a pretty good 3D relief map of the Portuguese Bend area (click image for larger view). If you don&#8217;t have your 3D Glasses, you can see the <a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/portugese-bend2d.jpg' title='image in 2D here'>image in 2D here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have Google Earth, <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\">you should get it<\/a>. You can do a lot more with it than making nerdy 3D images.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I made Google Earth 3D images of several other locations: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/bob\/3d\/reserve\/Santa%20Catalina%20Airport.png\">Santa Catalina Airport in the Sky<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/bob\/3d\/reserve\/Mount%20Whitney.png\">Mount Whitney<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/bob\/3d\/reserve\/Mount%20Saint%20Helens.png\">Mount St. Helens<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/bob\/3d\/reserve\/Grand%20Canyon%20Village.png\">Grand Canyon Village<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not actually take an aerial photo of Portuguese Bend to get this 3D image, although it would be possible from a moving aircraft. Rather,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bobs-3d-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}