Distribute Points on Faces and Geometry Proximity

Question

The sphere in the screenshot below was done in an older version of Blender. How can I recreate this using the current nodes in Blender like the Distribute Points on Faces node and Geometry Proximity Node?

Answer 1

A possible variant would be the following setup:

Basically, the node Geometry Proximity replaces the obsolete node Attribute Proximity.

Furthermore, in this example I use the node Store Named Attribute to store an attribute in the geometry, which I then read and use again in the shader with Attribute.

By the way, you can find an overview of the nodes and their changes over time here:
Can't find the node! Which node is available in which Blender version?

_{(Blender 3.2+)}

Answer 2

you can use this node setup:

to get this: