I really like how you've progressed with this--are you only using
spheres? Is there a way you could use a sphere-disc combination? Sort of
do a small lens flare for each particle. Make the sphere and disc have
an ambient of 1.0, make the disc quite larger than the sphere, give the
disc a wood pattern which fades from the color value desired in the
center to complete translucent (or filter whichever is appropriate) at
the edge, make the whole thing shadowless and... viola! In theory you
should have glowing particles. If I'm way off the mark here someone
correct me.

Speaking of rotateing an object toward the camera... Is there an easy
way to do that in POV or do you need to set a camera vector and
calculate surface normals?

Happy Tracing,
~Adam

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