Been on holiday lately? Researchers from Google and the University of Washington have created this fascinating video below of famous landmarks changing and disappearing over time, using a whopping 86 million photos uploaded by tourists and travelers onto image-sharing sites.
The tourists’ photos were publicly available on Flickr and Picasa, so researchers collated images and assembled them into a mini time-lapse video of each landmark. To counteract filters and lighting effects, the images were color-balanced and warped to show scenes from the same angle.
The video of several time-lapses shows how famous landscapes, buildings and cityscapes change around the world over several years. The flora alongside the legendary hairpin bends of Lombard Street in San Francisco, California repeatedly burst into bloom and cede over four years.
Gif composed from video uploaded by YouTube user Ricardo Martin Brualla
The snow-capped tops of Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, disappear and reappear in definitive cycles between 2008 and 2011.
Gif composed from video uploaded by YouTube user Ricardo Martin Brualla
Check out this extraordinary video uploaded by University of Washington graduate and YouTube user Ricardo Martin Brualla to see more transforming scenery.
[H/T Telegraph]
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