{"id":4317,"date":"2010-06-07T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2010-05-31T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T08:22:53","slug":"making-maps-look-old-handy-handouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=4317","title":{"rendered":"Making maps look old – handy handouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I needed some maps, or photographs of some cool locations during the period just before world war II, in Britain. That is rather hard to come by I think, so I decided to use some naughty tricks, and Google Maps<\/p>\n

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First, I needed a submarine base, and I needed some buildings in corrugated metal, that had the same structure as a hangar. I found this filter i \u00a0FilterForge<\/a>, very nice indeed.<\/p>\n

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Now, I started Cheetah3D<\/a>, and created cylinder. Then I started to find a way to map the texture so it looked as good as possible.<\/p>\n

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Realizing this is from a great height, the texture has to be very small.<\/p>\n

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And here is the building, top down, a quick one.<\/p>\n

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I also needed a gun, and a I mean a gun, naval gun, not some kind of handgun, this is serious stuff. SO I made this from two cylinders and a darker steel texture, with an HDRI image.<\/p>\n

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Now, Google Maps to find some nice spots (which I had already found, close to the town of Blyth). Here is a recent picture of the Blyth fort, from Google maps. Now, I add the gun in OmniGraffle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And then I use the Old Photo filter to make it look old.<\/p>\n

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This could really be a recon photo from 1939.<\/p>\n

Now, here is the Blyth port where once a submarine base was located.<\/p>\n

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And here is the 1939 recon photo over the same area, created using this photo, OmniGraffle and FilterForge.<\/p>\n

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Never believe photos you see that are said to represent real WWII things, unless you know they really do. I love this trickery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I needed some maps, or photographs of some cool locations during the period just before world war II, in Britain. That is rather hard to come by I think, so I decided to use some naughty tricks, and Google Maps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[12,13,33,10],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-filterforge","tag-google-maps","tag-omnigraffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}