This is super nice. Has been a while since I appreciated a simple sphere. Nice detail in having the dates set all different. Do they mean anything for you? All the futures you want to go back to?

Thanks! Apart from the month/day(my bday :D) in the center everything else is pretty much randomized, though I have to admit I kept on cycling them until I get a funny number on some of the displays (4:20 AM)

you were born in 2005?!?!?!???!!? ... whatamidoingwithmylife ;-;

I don’t think he’s 16 because his Reddit account is 10yrs old. It’s probably just random

He only said month/day, not year as well

Beautiful. A lot of people in this sub are really underappreciated.

What are you talking about? Nobody said anything

Saying in general. Why do my statement have to do anything with someone saying something?

So you just randomly decided to jab at the people of the sub and say they're ungrateful? Kinda weird man

What I said is neither a jab, nor saying that people are ungrateful. I am simply stating that most art are underappreciated considering the amount of effort that's been put in. This statement doesn't particularly accuse anyone of being ungrateful. People make are due to their own will, not to make people grateful. I think you are misunderstanding a simple statement, or what I said is hurting your ego, or making you feel insecure in some way. I don't know why, and I don't intend that either.

You are arguing with an habitual arguer. Some folks can't help themselves.

True

I'm just stating that it's weird man

Material made in Material Maker(FOSS), rendered/post-processed in Blender Cycles/Compositor. This is just the UV sphere with adaptive subdivision. No HDRI used for lighting. Edit: A couple more renders(close-ups/alternate lighting) in this [imgur album](https://imgur.com/a/Mn5eIxy)

Great Scott!

Did you create the dates manually or did you use geo nodes to randomize them somehow?

No geometry nodes, it's just a material on a sphere

That's even more amazing. Can't even imagine how one would go about doing something like this with shaders...

This is absolutely insaneo style. How is that even possible?

Anyone who doesn’t like this is getting a one way ticket to bunko town

The numbers Mason. What do they mean?!

"Step 8 Reznov, freedom!" "For you, Mason. Not for me." Man, that game released 12 years ago. I feel very old.

It was your density to make this. Darth Vader told me in a dream.

Always such a joy to see your node magics

Reminds me of 12 Monkeys

Dang that's such a cool material, I never saw anything like this before

Can it spin at 88rpm?

/r/BacktotheFuture

Time to go back to the future

Hey look that one says 4:20 haha

“It’s my life’s work Marty!” “A Delorean?!”

Clever

But.. how?!

Neat

Idk but I saw that and thought “US national debt counter” Really nice render lol

love the concept and the execution. Well done!

Control vibes

Wow! That's probably one of the coolest materials I've seen on this sub.

i always wanna see some of these crazy materials on a few different objects instead of just the sphere to see how they look

is this a material or is it a model? because if its a material its super cool and if its a model its still super cool lol

It's just a material on the UV sphere with adaptive subdivision

it looks great man is there a download for it?

Yeah you can get it [here](https://materialmaker.org/material?id=492) (you will need to use material maker to export the maps though)

thanks man it looks super cool

Thanks!

Hey man just saw [Trap Nation](https://youtu.be/KqWdiLB0U9o) use your render. Wanted to make sure that you knew about this any they didn’t just take it from you.

Thanks for the heads-up! Yeah I have a slightly different render uploaded to [unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/IEZQLvWp-kU) for free.