I talked to the boss at the Water Board, I think there's a difference between the altitude for a photo of a 5 mile wide lake and and 15 ft wide tree. They are all just specks of green.
My current boss goes flying with her son in a private plane, she'll she what she can do for us.
With either option I know I could get the creative commons license, no worries there. It's just a matter of logistics.
Yeah, you know, 'cause weenies who object to little kites flying over don't at all mind being buzzed by light airplanes. Heehee. Pulling your chain, dude.
I would join Redrobes in indebtedness to anyone who can put out good tree and house freebies. Photographic or otherwise.
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Definitely, I have had a few friends and the odd family member do a hot air balloon flight. I tell them with fervent pleading to take some photos straight down. They take off from a field and pass over the odd tree maybe but you quickly gain enough height that the photos merge to a green cloth. Also the shots must be vertical straight down. You cant fix up angled pics. Ill post what I have, some are workable but less so that you might initially think. These are my best I have and I dont think they are good enough as they lack detail. I reckon the RC plane or the kite would be best with the right kind of altitude.Originally Posted by GlennZilla
Edit: The last one is a bit surreal. If nothing else it gives great reference material for anyone wanting to draw trees from above ! These were taken April 2007 and whilst very grateful to the family member for trying with these I cant make a single tree icon out of them. As a texture it might work. Might have to push number two through the seamless tex creator script over in the tut section.
Edit 2: Added seamless tile of image 2
Last edited by Redrobes; 02-07-2008 at 05:20 PM.
These are a good--no, a GREAT start! I am very excited about this! Go, Redrobes, go!
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Very nice, Redrobes! I'm copying your post for the texture thread in the mapping elements forum! Do you think these textures would work as a seamless fill? Probably not, I'm guessing as you would have bits of trees cut off at the edges. Clone stamp maybe?
Last edited by ravells; 02-08-2008 at 05:13 AM.
You must have missed the update yesterday where I added the seamless version of image number two. But I would like to get icons (clone stamps) out of the images and these images do not have enough res or clean enough trees to get at them well. What I would like is old oak in summer - you know, fluffy green stuff like model train sets have and some conifers too. My app can bunch a whole load together or mix them up and create textures for that if I had a selection of really good icons to use.
No, I was just being blind...hadn't realised that the last image was a seamless tile. I did a google for 'architectural trees' and found this site , (sample image below) which sells images of trees seen top down but it looks like 3 modelling rather than the real thing and at $75 it's not cheap! You can download Bryce 5.5 for free, I think and that has a tree modeller. The models are not much to write home about, but they may look better if seen from above, and you can make alpha channels for the render too and make transparent .pngs out of them.
I'll have a play tonight and see how they look.
They're cool. Whats your take on this... If you used a proprietary 3D model of a tree or even an app to generate random trees and took a screenie from above then can you distribute the image of the tree ?
Speed Tree :- http://www.speedtree.com/tree_browser/index.htm is a bit of a daddy when it comes to this as its used in a lot of places and games. There is a demo where (at least a few years ago at any rate) you could whoop up some random stuff and select the viewpoint including from above. The demo had a handful of models to try and get the idea where the full set gives you loads. But I chose not to use them because I don't want to get tied up in any kind of copyright spat.
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