Here's an airplane height view of the well named Top of the Rockies Scenic and Historic Byway.
From Aspen (in the bottom center of the image) the route follows Highway 82 along the upper Roaring Fork to Independence Pass, then down Lake Creek past Twin Lakes to US 24 and the Arkansas River Valley. From there it goes N along US 24 to Leadville at 10,152 ft elevation. The Byway splits into 2 branches at Leadville: one goes NW along US 24 to Minturn; the other follows Highway 91 NE to Copper Mountain.
Be sure to visit before Independence Pass closes for the winter - usually in late October or November.
Friday, August 20. 2010
Silverton to Engineer Pass
This route follows the Animas River NE from Silverton all the way to the top of Engineer Pass:
I did this route 5 or 6 years ago - truly beautiful country! Summer's almost gone folks - better get out there!
Thanks to Spike Productions for the video production work.
I did this route 5 or 6 years ago - truly beautiful country! Summer's almost gone folks - better get out there!
Thanks to Spike Productions for the video production work.
Wednesday, August 11. 2010
Change Parameters - Change Seasons
Most rendering programs (including mine) use "tile pyramids" or sets of image tiles sampled at different levels of detail. This technique allows you to retain high resolution close up with less detail in the background. Altering the appearance of the texture map becomes a nightmare, however, with thousands of tiles at different resolutions. Consequently, I've tried to build some control into the rendering program so that the appearance can be changed at run time.
The image above shows a view of Longs Peak (left) and Mount Meeker (right) using NAIP imagery acquired in the summer season. By adjusting multipliers on the color bands along with the color of the incident "sun" light, I produced this corresponding "winter" scene:
It's not perfect, but it's still pretty compelling.
The image above shows a view of Longs Peak (left) and Mount Meeker (right) using NAIP imagery acquired in the summer season. By adjusting multipliers on the color bands along with the color of the incident "sun" light, I produced this corresponding "winter" scene:
It's not perfect, but it's still pretty compelling.
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