So it’s Monday morning and I’m playing with satellite imagery, and silliness takes over …
Call it a tribute to Python … 
Nice!
I wish I lived on the cone shaped world though. 
Weird… :o How is it a tribute to Python?
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard, or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft,
And you feel that you’ve had quite enough,
Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.
I think its perfect 
CyberAce: The cone-shaped world would be really cool if it was the other way up, you could bungie-jump off Europe.
3DMantis: See http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Images.MeaningOfLife.html. Then get the film out; you haven’t even begun to see weird yet
bobthevirus: Nice one bruvva!
oooo, thats cool. living on the cube world would be cool, you could freeze the top of it and play ice hockey all day.
I also seem to remember that in one of the movies (probably The Meaning of Liff 
) , there is a a Terry Gilliam animation of God trying to decide between a spherical world, or a cubical one.
Here’s another one with a hollow-earth:
Shame the reflection and shadow don’t use the alpha value.
hehe, nice ideas :).
i think you need to use raymir and increase the mirror depth.
how’d you make the gridlines?
I bet he started with a plane, enambled wireframe rendering in material settings and the extruded a million times, right?
Using ray-transparency on the globe fixes the mirror but you get refraction artifacts at the edge. I can’t seem to do anything about the shadow though. Feel free to have a tweak:
http://incubator.vislab.usyd.edu.au/~ssmith/images/hollow.blend
I actually started with a grid and enabled wireframe thinking that would be enough, but the wires are only drawn on the edge of the grid. So I enabled sub-surfacing which fixed it.
Cheers,
Steve
ooo neat, would’ve never done that myself but hey.
For the shadow, turn on transparent shadow for the globe and the plane, that should fix it.
Ahhh, there we go:
Cheers. Is there anything I can do to get ride of the refractive artifacts around the edge of the sphere?
Cheers,
Steve
Under “Map To” Change Mul to Mix & under “Material” turn Alpha to 0 (zero).
edit: Turn off Stencil as well, that’s only useful if you’re working with multiple textures.
funny
I love the first image. It actually reminds me of both Python, and somewhat of Douglas Adams. (with a light splash of Simpson’s thrown in for good measure)