This texture was generated in Filter Forge, a Photoshop plugin that allows you to create your own filters.
Snippet for creating planetary noise patterns. Made to be mapped on a sphere seamlessly and without scale distortion at the poles.
Consists of two patterns mapped spherically, one for the top half of the planet and another for the bottom half, with a gradual overlap of the two at the equator.
Credit for polar to rectangular mapping goes to ByRo.
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