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April 25, 2011
Mount Rushmore finally looks great!
It looks like Peter Olson, who has previously shown us such excellent models such as Machu Picchu, the Disney Monorail and the Tenerife disaster, is at it once again.
This time, Peter has created a very detailed model of Mount Rushmore, which looks far better than the default (terrain-based) model. Check it out:
In addition to the famous faces on the mountain, Peter also built the "Hall of Records" behind them. The Hall was never completed, but you can learn more about it on the National Parks Traveler site, as it's quite interesting.
To see it all for yourself, you can fly there using this KML file
or you can view the details in the Google 3D Warehouse.
Great job Peter!
Posted by mickmel at April 25, 2011 8:05 AM
Comments
Posted by: Bas at April 26, 2011 7:53 AM
thank you for those Pictures, never heard of the hall before.
Posted by: atomic at April 26, 2011 12:09 PM
A never completed hall inside Mt. Rushmore? Would make a good start for another National Treasure movie. I'd like to see some GPS tracking based riddle solving in the next one.
Posted by: Covert GPS Trackers at April 28, 2011 1:14 PM
Very impressive! but, How can he made the faces? I think it is impossible to model it with sketch up, isn`t it? I usually work with it so I would appreciate more information.
Great job by the way.
Posted by: Aldara B. Dios at May 1, 2011 4:39 PM
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More (better) pictures of the hall of records: http://www.dakotaphoto.smugmug.com/gallery/3995249_SAnSw#232352576_yj5tV