Recently I've been using Vue to model the local landscape, for the purposes of historical research. I thought I'd share this one with you. The original is a beautiful high resolution render that looks stunning, but hopefully this jpg carries some of the qualities of the original. The landscape is created via a fiddly process from a contour map of the region. This is then over layed with an aerial photo, lined up exactly. Overlayed on this, in yellow, red and blue, is an old estate map. As you can see the match is amazing. I have not distorted the estate map in any way, just re-sized and slightly rotated it. Field boundaries, roads, water courses, lost lanes and so on are almost spot on. You can't see many of the modern field boundries because they are hidden under the yellow lines! The largest error I can find is 9 metres out on the ground. Over 90 percent of the features are within 2 metres on the ground. The original estate map is obviously a vertical projection, as it fits on the hills perfectly. What is astounding is that this estate map is from at least 1760, but features on it indicate it is in fact pre 1700. Someone was obviously very skilled.

it looks amazing ! could you upload a better quality version or can we find one on your website ? I want to see all the details..

:) Eric

Adrian, it would be great if you submit one of those images to e-on's pic of the day. That's something very original and shows another (new) aspect of what Vue can do. I wish I had such a photo, I would love to play with it:-) Guitta

Audity - The immage is already at the limit for Renderosity, so its a bit difficult. The original is 32 mb. If you really want to see a better version, write me a note and I'll post a 2mb version on my web site temporarily for yu to download. Thanks for the comments. Guitta - I will be sending the whole series to Nico, including animations, when I've finished the project. You can get these aerials from lots of sites now. Multimap is a good one for uk coverage. (uk2/multimap.com).