A cube of stars?

[5 Puppis]

I saw this the other day on my way to Sag A* for the first time and was puzzled. Why does the galactic core look like a cube of stars?

 

[GunnerBill]

All you need to know about starry cubes!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/375432-What-is-this-starry-weirdness

 

[Straha Yeagar]

Just a quirk of how the skybox is rendered. Been that way for a looooong time, and some find it rather jarring to say the least.

 

[5 Puppis]

Just a quirk of how the skybox is rendered. Been that way for a looooong time, and some find it rather jarring to say the least.

Ha, for sure! I definitely stared at it for a while to parse what I was seeing.

 

[thundernuns]

The star generation can be odd. Such as inhabited space being full of giant stars, but the surrounding procedurally generated area is deviod of them. Star boxes are definitely one of the more noticeable ones [blah]