If you know the actual mile radius of the layer, you can just input With a radius of 1, and a high UV resolution ( 128 segments × 64 The interior layers of Saturn involves creating concentric spheres ofĭifferent sizes in Blender. The script from within Blender in the Preferences window byĬhecking the box next to the script (the script will be found under Vector geometry.) Copy the script into the 2.73/scripts/addons (The export script was written by a member of the Blender communityĪnd allows us to export the 3D vector geometry in Blender to 2D SVG SVG export script, which you can download here.

If you need a refresher, check out these Blender tutorials, or these Inkscape ones. Tutorial will assume some basic knowledge of the workings of Blender,Īs well as Inkscape. Image of the Saturn illustration we will be creating. Incredibly powerful 3D app which we will be using to render a bitmap (current version at the time of writing is 2.73a). You don’t already have it, download Blender from You will learn how to replicate 3D shading and bounce lighting with SVG gradients in Inkscape, draw the planet’s transparent rings with colors sampled from NASA images, create an aurora effect over the planet’s north pole, and much much more. We will use the open source 3D graphics software Blender to produce a physically shaded render of the planet, which we will use as a base to reproduce the image entirely in SVG vector.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create this “photo-realistic” cutaway Saturn illustration in pure SVG.

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