Google's 3D Model Of An Infamous Oil Wreck Is Awesome And Unnerving | Co. Design

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"Google's cartoon-y rendering of Deepwater Horizon offers opportunity for exploration -- and reflection.

Remember the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which poured hundreds of millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico in the spring and summer of 2010? It was hard to get a mental grip on the scope of the environmental degradation. Edward Burtynsky turned it into art. Chris Harmon turned it into an alternate-reality meditation on what we could have done with all that oil. And now Google has released a free 3D model of the wreckage of the oil platform itself, which currently lies moldering at the bottom of the Gulf. Out of sight, out of mind? Not anymore...."

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