Just an experiment creating a psudeo 3D ball... Positioning , z ordering, scaling, brightness etc are all fairly simple sine and cosine function shenanigans. Also flexing the cloning to see what can be done with that. This effectively does nothing but it creates a 3D spinning globe out of balls, but it looks quite pretty!
Stock background and ball sprite, all the rest of the code is from my head. Update 18/08/2020 - Simplified and cleaned up the code