Amicyanin in spaaaaaaace

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Amicyanin again, but then with some nuclear fusion processes taking place in the core :-) Two seperate halos were used to simulate the fusion plasma and the glowing core, like:

sphere { 0, 1
    pigment { color rgbt <1, 1, 1, 1 }
    halo {
      emitting
      spherical_mapping
      linear
      turbulence 1
      color_map {
        [ 0 color rgbt <1, 0, 0,  1 ]
        [ 1 color rgbt <1, 1, 0, -1 ]
      }
      samples 10
      scale 0.5
    }
    hollow
    scale 50
  }
  sphere { 0, 1
    pigment { color rgbt <1, 1, 1, 1 }
    halo {
      emitting
      spherical_mapping
      linear
      color_map {
        [ 0 color rgbt <1, 0, 0, 1 ]
        [ 1 color rgbt <1, 1, 0, -1 ]
      }
      samples 10
    }
    hollow
    scale 5
  }
 

I took the starfield texture from the Moray texture library.