Twisted Landscapes of Google Earth's Universal Texture

Explore the captivating Google Earth landscapes captured by Clement Valla, revealing intriguing technical anomalies. Discover more!

Written byRebecca Horne
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is a series of screenshots artist Clement Valla took from Google Earth. These uncanny landscapes document technical anomalies in the software, which uses a technology called texture mapping. Like patterned wrapping paper covering a plain white box, a texture map is a flat image applied to a 3D model, thereby adding detail, color and surface texture. Read more »

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