amazing alc

Here's what I came up with. I couldn't get the light quite right, but anyway.

That's really cool, Deb. Neptune's sphere.

That is way cool, I haven't tried that one yet, just the ring so far.,

Really nice O...I love the colors.

Ooh! I really like the texture on that!

molly: aww, it's set with pearls - how lovely is that?!
alc59: that's soooo cool! any rock star with a taste for digital image processing will want to wear that for their next concert.
O: lovely sphere! how did you get part of it transparent while the rest of it was opaque?
DebiDalio: your seascape works very well as a sphere too

Finally got something I almost like

Wow, that is cool

Wow you guys are good
in the PDF i forgot to mention to make sure your band is centered and to "layer to image size" before running Map to object
Sorry about that

I'm Space Truckin he4rty

Awesome! I bow in your general direction.

I wish I could make them fancy like that.

Molly, I love your spheres. They are awesome.

@h4earty - Your outer space sphere is really cool.

I really don't know how that became transparent, AnMal. I had 5 bands all the same size to begin with. Bands 2 & 4 I made the height of them about 1/3 less than the other bands but they were the same as the others, just scrunched down. The transparency may have happened in the process of changing the Orientation Rotation. Just don't know.

Nice results everyone, really does inspire.

K1TesseraEna Me , I've been playing with spirals as well

Metallic Orange



and here is the rough guide to what shaped lines you will need to create to get a spiral.

That is really cool.

Here is an interesting result, started off with a diagonal cross, then ran the map object>sphere and set all rotations to 45'.

Hearts Entwined

wow, this thread is just getting better and better! the spirals are lovely!