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    I had a look around and didnt find anything but there was a nice site discussing the gores projection and lots of maps to make earth there but no elevation. The kind dev (Mitchell Charity) who runs that domain did a nice thing and posted the perl script to make it tho. So I got out a mercator style elevation map which is everywhere and pushed it though the gores projection and it made a nice version for you. I have issues uploading images so I am hosting it. Its public domain in any case since the original came from Nasa.

    http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/Temp/CG/Go...ationGores.png

    All you need to do now is make multiple copies of it and use a threshold for how bright you want each of them to determine the height and then cut all the bits out - good luck with that bit. Might be easier to 3D print it ! Post a pic of your globe when done. We have had a couple done like this before now if you search around.

    Edit - Site reference:
    http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/planet_globes/
    Last edited by Redrobes; 09-01-2014 at 04:55 PM.

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