These give some interesting perspectives. Since surveyors are students of history I think you might find them of interest:
Those definitely are interesting and a good way to show & compare history from then and now. He did a good job!!
Wow! I would love to see something similar from France and England.
A couple of the pictures also show the lenghths that Europeans went to to restore buildings to the way they were before the war. I have frequently been amazed at the comparison of before war - during war - after reconstruction pictures!
> A couple of the pictures also show the lenghths that Europeans went to to restore buildings to the way they were before the war. I have frequently been amazed at the comparison of before war - during war - after reconstruction pictures!
I'm in awe of the technical problem of finding the same camera station, height, orientation, and lens to rephotograph the scene from. It definitely smacks of German attention to detail.
> A couple of the pictures also show the lenghths that Europeans went to to restore buildings to the way they were before the war. I have frequently been amazed at the comparison of before war - during war - after reconstruction pictures!
Sometimes, yea.
Sometimes, no.
Here's one they intentionally left just as it was, shattered and blackened during the war.
They left it that way as a reminder.
> I'm in awe of the technical problem of finding the same camera station, height, orientation, and lens to rephotograph the scene from. It definitely smacks of German attention to detail.
No, they were done by a russian. The soviets knew a thing or two about reverse-engineering, nyet?
Actually, not that challenging, if you take a little time to study the perspective and positioning. Light angles as well...
> Actually, not that challenging, if you take a little time to study the perspective and positioning. Light angles as well...
Well, one simplification probably was that the camera lenses used in the WWII photos had a limited variety of focal lengths. If they knew the possible lenses, it would have been simple enough to figure out which was used on a particular scene and carry on from there.
One could do it via measurement and reconstructing lines of perspective...
One could also for example extend that by creating a rough and simple 3D model, using something like AutoCAD, and use it's dview zoom features inputting typical lenses, e.g. ubiquitous 50mm lenses, trial and error...
I used to do some similar stuff with 3d renderings for projects, would blend the rendering of the proposed features in with a photo using photoshop.
