GEOSPHERES The Geosphere is everything under our feet: the lithosphere, the mantle, and the core. But not these geospheres. They're something else. They look like geodesic spheres ... See Wikipedia on geodesics.
TOPMOST IMAGE: 3ds Max Standard Primitives: The Geosphere is at bottom right.  [Source: Wikipedia article on the Autodesk product 3ds Max, 3D modeling/rendering software]
MIDDLE IMAGE: Geospheres made in the Maya programming languageÂ
Described as "4 different types of polygon spheres"
LOWER IMAGE: Â Done with a Python script in Maya that "creates a platonic solid, smooths it and then sets every vertex at the given radius from the origin again." [ XÂ - towards the bottom]
LOWEST IMAGE:  Superformula by LuxXeon, who writesÂ
Modeled in 3dsmax. Rendered in LuxRender (v1.0RC3).
A combination of renderable splines and some Maxscript to create complex curves on the surface of several interlinked geospheres.
The geospheres are not rendered here, only the splines.Â
So, in this last image you are shown absence-of-geospheres.  Heh-heh
