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Can you draw points at infinity with OpenGL? Sure, why not?

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So I'm working on a webGL version of the space game Oolite. I've reported progress here:http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17574When trying to display the stars, I was a bit annoyed by the idea of making the stars as points on a sphere of large radius. I didn't want to pick a fake radius (not nearly as large as interstellar distances) that would fit inside the view frustrum. I wanted to put the stars in a correct scale, that is very far away, or even at infinity.But then how would they fit into the viewing frustrum? Well, why not creating an infinite frustrum?That's what I did:http://grondilu.github.io/oolite/test-coriolis.html

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