A fundamental step forward although hardly distinguishable from previous.

Background stars again using the galaxy macros by Chris Colefax;

Dust lanes by several emission and absorption media, concentrated into 
torus-like density patterns. The difficulty resides mainly in applying 
interesting turbulence patterns;

40K stars in the Milky Way plane represented by (write/read) randomly 
rotated spheres on the edge of a circle (radius = major radius of the 
media torus), only selected if visible in image, and moved outside of 
the plane by a random gaussian distribution;

Total render time of this image is about 5 minutes (only read). Writing 
the positions first takes a couple of minutes more.

I am quite satisfied of what I achieved. Comments appreciated at this stage.

Thomas

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