Greg Edwards wrote:
> I know you've probably already seen a million or so like this, but I've 
> made a procedural starfield using a crackle pattern which I think looks 
> pretty convincing, or at least a lot better than my previously used 
> modified granite pattern from textures.inc. It was actually really simple 
> to make and it's the first time I've found crackle forms useful. It's a 
> hell of a lot simpler than a sphere-placing macro and I think the results 
> are better. Here's the code:
> 
> sphere {
>   0, 1
>   pigment {
>     crackle form <1, 1, 0>
>     scale 1/200
>     colour_map {
>       [0.4 rgb 1]
>       [0.6 rgb 0]
>     }
>   }
>   finish {
>     diffuse 0
>     ambient 1
>   }
>   inverse
>   scale 1000000
> }
> 
> 
> 
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> 

This gives a very nice starfield, thanks for posting!

Sebatian H.

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