Earth Normal Map
Normal map of earth, made using a sobel filter.
click to see screenshot
Normal map of earth, made using a sobel filter.

click to see screenshot

This normal map saves a surface's normal as RGB from 0 to 255. For us, it means from 0 to 1. But vectors can also go into negative direction, ...

Indeed, this is your normal map of the world.

Normal Map

Earth Normal Map [8k]

Earth Normal Map