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What does the windows 7 rotating mirror-surfaced 3D screensaver reflect?

When I leave my computer be for a while, it of course eventually goes in to the screensave mode. There appears then on a black background spinning 3D "Windows 7" text (The computer is hp z400 workstation). The text is mirror-surfaced and clearly reflects something orange/red tinted. Please somebody, help.
Whatever it is, it has been doing it for 13 years, so it will not be a brightly painted Lamborghini Aventador.. :-)
Windows 10 Pro - Start10 - part of a local network which is a '3rd party optimizer-free' zone..

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The screensaver program (c:\Windows\System32\ssText3d.scr) contains four images embedded in it:

It is the big brownish ball that looks like it could be hiding there. Google's image search revealed also what that picture is: a sphere map generated from a picture taken at a cafe in Palo Alto, CA. See https://www.opengl.org/archives/resources/code/samples/advanced/advanced97/notes/node95.html



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