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  Re: Starfield: pow(10,6) spheres or an isosurface?  
From: gilroy
Date: 27 Aug 2002 12:40:11
Message: <web.3d6b986c56ac2177fc4456160@news.povray.org>
Mike Williams wrote:
>Wasn't it Timothy R. Cook who wrote:
>>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)
>
>If you're serious about that, I can send you a list in this format

Sorry to de-lurk, but I also would be extremely interested in that list.  My
email is pov### [at] ubidubiumnet.  Thanks.


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