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Russians have been making fun globes with city maps:
http://englishrussia.com/?p=5979
I'm amazed the beach-ball held its shape through the molding process.
here is the plastic beach ball covered in paint for the inside of the sphere-half mold...
That caption doesn't make sense here, it belongs to a different picture at the link.
it is amazing!i looks like a globe!The map of my country Malaysia was very small!It looks like you have to enlarge it!
That is really nice!
This seems like a fun project to do over my Christmas break since I've got all the mapping software and know how to do it. I've always loved globes, but the last one I owned had the USSR on it.
What beautiful work! The stand is very nice, too. The perfect compliment to one's study or den.
I've always wanted a globe done with something like NASA's Blue Marble map - no borders etc, just a photo-accurate cloudless globe. I suppose I could do it with the tools presented here, but this isn't my skill set at all.
Using Maya I did a somewhat 'lower polygon' papercraft version just the other day to help my daughter with a school project.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalartform/4105484262/
We looked at that NASA map for the project I described in #9 - my daughter used it to guide her own map painting.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalartform/4104757315/
I was thinking it might be fun to try an accurate map in an antique style, complete with sea monster engravings
That's pretty cool. Reminds me of the Steinberg map of the US from a New Yorker's perspective.
And that photoshop plugin looks interesting.
I would love a photo globe.
I wouldn't trust a beach ball to be round.
I t looks great, but won't it start to deflate and shrivel over time?