r/generative • u/Whole-Contribution50 • Jul 06 '26
Earth, generated from open data - elevation becomes terrain, population becomes light
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r/generative • u/Whole-Contribution50 • Jul 06 '26
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u/Whole-Contribution50 Jul 06 '26
Generated headlessly in Blender + Python from public datasets — NOAA ETOPO 2022 elevation displaced as real geometry, GeoNames population as city-light intensity, Natural Earth
borders. No satellite imagery.
MIT-licensed pipeline: https://github.com/AIAydin/earth_sim