earth-sim - a data-driven 3D Earth globe built headlessly in Blender from real public datasets (MIT)
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A 3D Earth painted by elevation, lit by population — built from open data, no satellite imagery
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[OC] A 3D Earth built entirely from open elevation + population data - no satellite imagery
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Open Source 3D Modelled Earth
generated a spinning 3D Earth in Blender entirely from data — NOAA elevation, ocean depth, and city populations.
Mountains, trenches, snow peaks, glowing cities, the day/night line, and atmosphere are all scripted.
No satellite textures. No hand-painting. Just data → Earth.
Built headlessly in Blender with Python.
Relief is exaggerated 30× so the terrain/ocean floors are visible, and 33,934 real cities glow by population.
Check it out and feel free to contribute: https://github.com/AIAydin/earth_sim
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