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The new Apple HQ building site looks impressive in 3D: https://earth.google.com/web/@37.33478572,-122.00939683,47.8437939a,465.11726319d,35y,65.7414677h,60.0028
by defenestration 9y ago
The new Apple HQ building site looks impressive in 3D:
https://earth.google.com/web/@37.33478572,-122.00939683,47.8437939a,465.11726319d,35y,65.7414677h,60.00288635t,-0r https://earth.google.com/web/@37.33478572,-122.00939683,47.8...
They didn't close the circle yet, to let trucks enter the midsection.
- pyromine 9y agoWhat's more interesting to me is the cranes are 3d modeled, that was not expected
- folli 9y agoYes, I noticed that too. How is this done? There has to be some machine learning involved, accumulating all the aerial imagery and street view data and somehow generate a 3D model. This can't be all LIDAR data, can it?
- kristofferR 9y agoI think it's just Stereophotogrammetry (regular pictures from different angles), I doubt LIDAR and ML is used. It's at least not required. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry#Stereophotogrammetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry#Stereophotogram...
- zulln 9y agoHave you not heard? Machine learning is used for everything today, and if it was not it definitely should been.
- Mithaldu 9y agoUniversally useful link: https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B020'05.2%22N+122%C2%B000'33.8%22W/@37.3357952,-122.0074398,187a,35y,189.94h,57t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d37.3347857!4d-122.0093968 https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B020'05.2%22N+122%C2...