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Enjoy some 3D fireworks in Google Earth

January 5, 2011

In celebration of the new year many people shot off fireworks. GEB reader ‘Steven’ took it a step further and created some great 3D fireworks in Google Earth! As you can read about in his blog, the fireworks are intended to duplicate the 2011 Taiwan New Years Eve show, based on the simulation that you can view here.

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As you can see from the photo above, the fireworks aren’t just simple animated images — they’re fully 3D! Some of them shoot into the sky, and some wrap around the Taipei 101 tower. As Steven points out in his post, animations like this are only possible because of the work of 3D modelers that created the buildings. In this case, credit goes to user tang Huang who created the exceptionally detailed model of the Taipei 101 tower.
To see the fireworks in action, you can view them here using the Google Earth Plug-in, download this KMZ file, or watch the video below:

Nice work, Steven!

About Mickey Mellen

Mickey has been using Google Earth since it was released in 2005, and has created a variety of geo-related sites including Google Earth Hacks. He runs a web design firm in Marietta, GA, where he lives with his wife and two kids.

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  1. fjk says

    January 5, 2011 at 9:20 am

    Today Nvidia released beta graphics driver that have support anaglyph 3d in GE. In my system 3d in GE not working (works fine in games).

  2. Stefan says

    January 5, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    Why no posts on Google Latitude?



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