hi,

"Jezza" <ast### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Hi, I have only started on POV RAY for a day or so, so please go gently!

:-)

>  I am trying to produce a 3D set of point light sources which the camera can
> view.
> Imagine that they were 10 or so stars in a Night Sky constellation. I know how
> to get the
> star coordinates etc etc, but have so far only used SPHERE as each object star.
> The spheres size is determined by distance from camera, but I don't want
> that...I want a small fixed size point of light for each coordinate star, that I
> can vary the brightness of (to mimic the abs mag of the star), and also the
> colour of each.
>
> Any ideas...even if you just refer me to a tutorial !

varying brightness and controlling colour, you could use emissive media instead
of light sources, perhaps.

<http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Media_Types#Emission>


regards, jr.

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