Somewave Earth Map

As a digital artist I am fascinated by opportunities offered by pixels. This is an image of Earth made by converting the brightness value of each pixel into a coordinate value used to create the depth effect inside the 3D Processing renderer (P3D).
These colors make me think about a synthwave/cyberpunk universe.

Source image from: http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural3/index.html

Check the code at: https://github.com/Iranon/Earth_3D_depthMap