POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Local Affairs : Re: Local Affairs Server Time
31 Jul 2024 18:26:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Local Affairs  
From: nemesis
Date: 7 May 2009 00:05:00
Message: <web.4a025d8281e97699a77de5000@news.povray.org>
Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> The attached image uses data from the "6dF Galaxy Survey"
> at http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/6df/ to visualize our
> closest neighbours up to about 2 billion light years ;)
>
> Some noteworthy points:
>
> 1. Each dot represents a *galaxy*
> 2. About 100K galaxies are shown. Parsing takes
>     a few minutes, but render is actually very fast.

You know this deserves an animation, right? :)

even a simple rotation will do, please... :)


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