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   by avibarzeev 5y ago

   You might enjoy the "How Google Earth Really Works" article I linked from the article. It goes into how the multi-resolution texturing works and why it's unique. I see the lineage from SGI's Clip-Map to Keyhole's Un
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   by avibarzeev 5y ago

   I think it's great to give credit to ART+COM for making the demo they did at the time they did it. Building a PC app that does it much better is also worth recognition IMO, and the Netflix show denies that. The IP issues were resolved,
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   by avibarzeev 5y ago

   ART+COM's patent was invalidated in 2017 due to prior art from another app called TerraVision from SRI shown in 1994.
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   by avibarzeev 5y ago

   I've previously written about Snow Crash and Earth. Kind of tired given all the Metaverse hype this year. FYI, there were other inspirations like the amazing "Powers of 10" movie too. But I didn't think it was relevant t
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   by avibarzeev 5y ago

   It's a highly one-sided version from people who rightly IMO lost their case and had their patent invalidated. The show left out Keyhole, which actually wrote Google Earth before Google bought them. It was written 100% from scratch and
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   by avibarzeev 5y ago

   Yeah, I was trying to keep it simple, but you convinced me to edit that line out for correctness. Thanks! Their patent was invalidated in 2017. Here's why: https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/25/cafc-affir
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   by avibarzeev 5y ago

   Here's a free link if you need it https://avibarzeev.medium.com/was-google-earth-stolen-7d1b82...