Exhibition 'The Call of the Mountains' opens at the Gasometer Oberhausen - A 67-million-pixel floating Matterhorn

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Exhibition 'The Call of the Mountains' opens at the Gasometer Oberhausen - A 67-million-pixel floating Matterhorn


At 4478 metres tall, the Matterhorn is not one of Earth's highest mountains – not even the highest mountain in the Alps. However, its striking triangular shape makes it unique. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has measured this 'rock pyramid' with the help of satellite and aircraft overflights and, from the data, generated a precise terrain model that now brings the mountain to Gasometer Oberhausen as a 3D projection on a 17-metre-high reproduction of the Matterhorn. There, it floats upside down in the 100-metre-high airspace of the Gasometer as the highlight of the exhibition 'The Call of the Mountains', which was inaugurated on 16 March 2018. A mirror on the floor reflects the mountain, enabling a bird's eye view.



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