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Immediate Spherical Plotting
Mathematica 6 adds capabilities for immediately generating spherical height maps, as well as for general polar plots.
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SphericalPlot3D[

 1 + 1/10 Sin[5 \[Phi]] Sin[10 \[Theta]], {\[Theta], 

  0, \[Pi]}, {\[Phi], 0, 2 \[Pi]}, 

 ColorFunction -> (ColorData["Rainbow"][#6] &), Mesh -> None, 

 PlotPoints -> 25, Axes -> False]
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