Yann Ramin <atr### [at] atrustrivalieeuorg> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for generating a night sky with stars?  A big
> spehere with random holes punched through it? :)  I obviously can't use
> light to illuminate a sky_sphere.
>


I generally use some version of the following

#declare StarNo=0;
#declare rndPos=seed(8932)
#while (StarNo<1000)  // change value for more or less stars
 sphere {
   <1000,0,0>,1   // change numbers according to scale of scene
   texture {
    pigment {rgb 1}
    finish {ambient 0.9}
   }
   rotate <360*rand(rndPos),360*rand(rndPos),360*rand(rndPos)>
 }
 #declare StarNo=StarNo+1
#end

Gail
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