Everest K2 Kangchenjunga and other Peaks

Annapurna photo Comparisons see also Animations Page These pictures are all rollovers which show the CG composite, and with the mouse over you get the original photo. The renderings were done with World Construction Set 6 (WCS). The terrain is derived from 90 meter DEM's which have been overlaid with Landsat photos. These photos have an on the ground resolution of about 14 meters so foregrounds have been broken up a bit with WCS bumpmaps. The only way I could get these bumps to show through the overlay was to make a bumpy ecosystem and use the "tint foliage" option on the colour map. This is set to fade out with distance from the camera. 90 meter Dem's are notorious for having large holes in mountainous areas, which is a blow as these are the areas I am interested in. The holes can be patched with 900m DEM's but this results in a very inaccurate smoothing out of the terrain as you can see on the K2 stuff. (I will be updating this later) . The solution to this is to use Jonathan de Ferranti's DEM's. He has painstakingly patched the holes in all the worlds areas over 7000m and they look just like the real thing as you can see from the pictures below. Visit his site for a full account of his work and to download the data at www.viewfinderpanoramas.org These pictures differ from the previous ones in that the camera position was taken from a GPS I took along on the trek. It made camera positioning in WCS simple, that's why I've done quite a few. I used the data from the camera (digital) for the field of view. The only thing I was not able to record was the orientation of the camera so I just had to swing it around in WCS until it matched the photo.
Latitude: N28.23824° Longitude: E84.33336° Altitude: 1617m Heading: 50° FOV: 31° This was taken on the ridgetop at Baglumpani looking NE toward Nagadi Chuli on the left and Himalchuli on the right. This was looking at the edge of the landscape model I used so the distant peak to the right is not rendered.
	Latitude: N28.23824° Longitude: E84.33336° Altitude: 1617m Heading: 330° FOV: 18° The distant peak just to the left of centre, peaking over the snowy ridge, is Annapurna II (7939m). Further left is Machhapuchhre (6993m) and dead in line behind that is Annapurna I (8091m). This was also taken from Baglumpani.
Latitude: N28.54535° Longitude: E84.28889° Altitude: 2687m Heading: 100° FOV: 36° Looking down the Marsayangdi valley. On the left, peeking over the ridge, is Manaslu (8163m) and in the centre is another view of Nagadi Chulu behind a closer peak.
	Latitude: N28.54535° Longitude: E84.28889° Altitude: 2687m Heading: 100° FOV: 36° Annapurna II from the Northern side.
Latitude: N28.60242° Longitude: E84.17889° Altitude: 3192m Heading: 209° FOV: 36° Annapurna II again from further up the Marsayangdi valley.
	Latitude: N28.60652° Longitude: E84.16242° Altitude: 3206m Heading: 116° FOV: 49° This was taken a bit above Bhratang where the valley opens out into a glacially eroded one. The peak in the centre is unnamed (4670m)
Latitude: N28.63108° Longitude: E84.12707° Altitude: 3412m Heading: 285° FOV: 34° Looking up the Marsayangdi valley toward Humde, with Tilicho Peak (7134m) centre left.
	Latitude: N28.64555° Longitude: E84.07741° Altitude: 3428m Heading: 222° FOV: 40° Annapurna III (7555m) from near Humde. I think the true peak is the bit curling round to the left of the apparent high point..
Latitude: N28.657796° Longitude: E84.020318° Altitude: 3828m Heading: 101° FOV: 57° Looking back down the Marsangdi Khola to Pisang Peak (5092m). This was taken from above Manang.
	Latitude: N28.65937° Longitude: E84.02025° Altitude: 3765m Heading: 225° FOV: 21° This was taken from the same location as the previous shot but looking at Gangapurna (7454m) across the glacier.
Latitude: N28.816797° Longitude: E83.864015° Altitude: 3694m Heading: 252° FOV: 14° This is the other side of the Thorung La near Muktinath looking at Dhaulagri (8167m).
	Latitude: N28.702965° Longitude: E83.637554° Altitude: 2574m Heading: 217° FOV: 38° This is down in the Khali Ghandaki with Dhaulagris' south east ridge crossing the picture.

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