Blogging Roller

I was playing around with the new <a href= "http://earth.google.com/intl/en/userguide/v4/flightsim/index.html">flight simulator in Google Earth and flying over Raleigh when I noticed the extensive and very detailed set of 3D models for the NCSU campus. Here's an overview that shows the brickyard, D.H. Hill library and Harrelson Hall:

<img src="http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/resource/ncsu-3d-533x338.jpg" alt="Google Earth 3D view of NCSU campus" style="margin: 10px" />

The details are pretty amazing, with signage and steps and hand-rails. Here's an example that shows the stairs on the side of Reynolds the old basketball coliseum:

<img src="http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/resource/reynolds.jpg" alt="View of stairs of Reynolds Hall" style="margin: 10px" />

The work was done by <a href= "http://delta.ncsu.edu/news/announcements/item.php?id=40">students competing in Google's Build Your Campus in 3D competition. Follow that link for a (tiny) video and you can also find a <a href= "http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=01632339457160731034&start=60">catalog of all the student's work on the Google Earth site.