David Fontaine wrote:
> 
> "Bob H." wrote:
> 
> > That's an untruth actually.
> > Take a granite color map, for example, which disperses a star-like pattern with
parts (dots) being scaled too
> > small to be seen (when AA is used especially, not sure at the moment if this does
in all cases) and then try an
> > increase in color value.  I think the previously invisible pixels will then
appear.
> > You might be right though about it when non-AA rendering.
> > Same goes for objects too I think.  Seems I've encountered that before.
> 
> Correct, it only works with AA. Still, though, only to an extent and some still
disappear entirely.
> 
> If a star is "between the cracks" AA will completely miss it, because neighboring
pixels will be black. In the case
> of getting caught and aa'd, the aa will of course decrease brightness as the star is
only part of the pixel.
> Angular size is still the predominant factor.
> 
> It is very annoying to create good stars in POV when changing quality settings from
one render to another!

	That is exactly what I am trying to eliminate. The best solution so far
results in a 9.7M tga file at level 6 compression -- whatever GIMP means
by 6. However it is some five times faster to render than a random
generation of many fewer stars. However it is a poor solution in general
as it still requires odd things to be done. 

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