I was playing around with Blender’s array modifier and wound up with this.  Perfect for dual screen users.  I’m including a .blend file for the curious, that has a nodes setup to change edge color and pellet color without rerendering.

Whipped up in Blender. Rendered at 2960×1050, if you’d like a different size post a comment and I’ll render one for ya.

Modeled and rendered with Blender.  This was my first time playing with blender halos and flares.  I had to mess around with the settings quite a bit before i got where I was going but I’m pretty happy with the flare effect.  I rendered at 2960×1050, as a dual-screen wallpaper for my 12″ and 20″ [...]