"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> How did you do the stars then? That's probably one of the best starfields
> I've seen done wih povray.

Oh, I see. Thanks! It's just a granite pattern on a big hollow sphere. Set
ambient to 1, and use a color_map a bit like this:

#declare a = 0.05;
color_map {
  [0 color White]
  [a color White]
  [a+a/100 color Black]
  [1 color Black] }

Alter a to make the stars more/less visible, scale the pattern to space them
out. The trick is to tweak the balance for your final resolution and
antialias settings.

Bill

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