14 DAY TRIAL // An interesting contest took place in Canada where the Dominion Institute of Canada invited users to create 3D drawings representing the Allied landings at Juno Beach during World War II. The main idea was to design 3D creations that represent the historic event using Google SketchUp, the 3D modeling tool provided by the Mountain View company.
All the drawings were uploaded on Google Warehouse, a separate website hosted by the parent firm that was especially created to store all these creations. In fact, it was rolled out when Google added interoperability between Google Earth and SketchUp and invited users to create their own 3D building to be included in the mapping tool.
"The challenge was to create 3D models related to this historic event. There were some outstanding entries created for the contest, and now that the modeling dust has settled the judges have chosen a winner. We'd like to extend our congratulations to Rahul Desai for his winning entry, the HMCS Haida. We'd also like to congratulate all the other participants on their excellent work," Tyson Kartchner, Learning Guru, said today.
But that's not all. Some of the drawings may be also used by the Mountain View company to create new imagery for Google Earth that would surely create some interest from a different category of users. The downloadable mapping tool received several updates but the most interesting ones seem to be the packs of 3D images that introduce a different perspective in Google Earth.
Recently, the downloadable program received a new version but it was quietly rolled out on the Internet without an official announced. Google Earth is now working closer to Google Maps due to a new function that allows the users to open a certain location straight into the window of the browser.