Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> IIRC, Philippe Debar's macro works by creating a faceted sphere and
> assigning a different texture to each facet, and both operations are quite
> slow (it's like building a giant bitmap pixel per pixel).

But it will render fairly fast which is the most important thing (a
sky_sphere with a image_map pigment could be even faster but this will
have problems with limited dynamic range with current POV-Ray of course).

Christoph

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