Pixel Fields
Tuesday, 19th April 2005 by Alex Turnbull
This is an awful lot of fields... scroll around for a bit - there's thousands! And from all the way up here, it looks like some sort of cool pixel-art.
Which might perhaps explain why the farmers chose Pac-Man as their new subject matter when they got bored of rectangles!
Thanks go to Seth for Pac-Man. Cheers mate, geek-tastic!
Oh, there's also combination rectangles and circles, sent to us by Mik 🙂
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
Anyone caring to know why there are these Pac-Man shapes: These fields are irrigated from a giant arm stretching from the center of the field outwards, forming a radius of a circle. That arm deposits water in the amount of an average rainfall (typically a little over an inch) over a certain number of days (depending on the plants) by circling the field. this is why there are certain fields that have small, greener wedges in them (where the arm has passed by recently, indicating more recent growth) and in this case, a ‘field within a field’ where there is a smaller, differently irrigated section cut into the larger one.
Here are some more ‘Pixel Fields’ from Florida, just South of Lake Okeechobee: View Placemark
From a zoomed in section on the field link: View Placemark
This area seems to be obscured but I’m not sure how. Smoke? Someone sneezed on the camera?
The obscured section looks like an area where the person making the map didn’t have a high-resolution photo — if you zoom out, you’ll see it’s a magnified view of the image at zoom level 6.
I don’t think those are all individual fields… I think it’s just because it was a crappy picture or something…
Has anyone even looked at the midwest? It’s the largest pixelfield ever! Check out the zoom level- and this is only a small section!
View Placemark
I dont know about pac man, but take a closer look at those fields… Crop Circles?.. no… wierd and sometimes clear images of faces and other noticable things.. i dont know how to link and stuff so, i could have shown you a aliens face.. (well looks like one).
keep up the good work guys.
Gary
Another Pacmans in Saudi Arabia : View Placemark A blue one eats a little one : View Placemark Strange fields : View Placemark
Some more pacman shapes: View Placemark
@Dub As said in one the earlier posts: Theese are not very strange fields, but got their looks from the way they water it. It’s much easier to have a long pipe with a wheel in the end attached to a pole in the middle and have the thing go round and round. Instead of having a long pipe swiping from one end to the other.
If you zoom all the way you can actually see the boom and the supporting wheels along it: Google Maps
While skipping around on pixel fields in the header post, i came across this. Is it somekind of a huge correction facility? It could look like it due two the two basket courts in the north wing, but I couldn’t tell for sure:
Google Maps
1st link again
Sorry, failed on the first link.