Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> I didn't quite like how the starfield pigments looked in a sky_sphere, so
> I'm going to make my own.
> 
> Q: which will render faster,
> i) pow(10,6) spheres, or
> ii) an isosurface of say the f_noise3d at low threshold and a huge scale?

Be a manly man, plot a few hundred actual stars' relative positions.
(Actually I'd like to try that, I just need to get a nice 
comma-delimited text file of their positions)

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Tim Cook
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