A recent reddit thread reminded us that you can generate a similar look for your own data (humorous or otherwise) in Python using Matplotlib. If you already have a plot generated with Matplotlib ...

He plots fast-moving rivers of air at ... Dorrington tried an alternative approach. Using the image viewer napari, he animated the streams in 3D as they flowed over the Northern Hemisphere ...

In my recent post on the angular size of a soccer goal, I created a contour plot. Despite what you might think, I'm not a Jedi Master at python ... then how about a 3d surface plot?

We can represent this image as \(3\times 3\) matrix where each entry is a colour. Colours can be represented in many ways: HEX, RGB, HSL, CYMK. We'll represent a colour by a 3D vector of RGB values.