Making a globe with a “ribbon” effect

[Brian Jones]

here’s one way using a texture on a sphere. It’s an R13 file…

3101_spiralglobe.c4d.zip

[David Van akkeren]

Thanks a million, Brian. That looks exactly like it 🙂
I had tried several different ways (like splines, and sweep nurds, and even the alpha channel in the material but I couldn’t get it totally right).