Thomas Lake <tla### [at] remove-thisshawca> wrote:
> I'm not looking at the pov docs now but I believe that the old docs said
> that the povray skysphere was equivilant to a sphere about 10,000 units in
> radius.

  Not really. If you have an object at 11000 units away, it will be behind
your sphere, but not behind a sky_sphere. Not even if it's 1000000 units
away. Or 1000000000.
  Another difference is that sky_sphere is not traced nor shaded in any
way (and thus is faster).

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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