Space Elevator

A carbon-nanotube cable rises from Earth's equator to a counterweight station in geostationary orbit, as a climber capsule ascends past a rotating starlit Earth. The 6000-point starfield is distributed on a spherical shell using inverse-cosine sampling for uniform density, and procedural landmass blobs are scattered across the globe with icosahedron patches. The climber's position is simply linear-interpolated between the cable's anchor and counterweight endpoints each frame.

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