[vaprdev]

Summary

Stars and other small lights were drawn into the scene's pixels, so each one became a square sub-pixel block that jumped between cells as it twinkled. Still points now register with Canvas.point() and the engine draws them as round dot glyphs on otherwise flat cells; moving specks (snow, sparks, fireflies) are splat()ed across neighbouring pixels so they glide instead of hopping.

 scene.render()
-  hdr[star] += light
+  this.point(x, y, light, size)     # still points → Scene.points
+  splat(x, y, light)                # moving specks, sub-pixel weights
 engine paint()
+  placeDot() on flat cells          # dot glyph; previousMask = DOT (-2), compatible with smooth glyphs
   band / wedge / octant otherwise

Refinement: stars skip the sun and moon discs (onOrb() against the orbs paintSky and the desert sky record), so none shine through the moon.

Evidence

Tundra night preview, origin/main (left) vs this branch (right): small round stars, none on the moon.

Flicker at night (dev/check.ts, mean over night combinations) 32.6 → 31.6 cells per frame; tundra teeming night 53 → 47. Cost, dev/check.ts tundra space desert zen back to back twice: 5.34 → 5.43 ms/frame.

Verified: typecheck, build, dev/check.ts --max-ms=60 in octant and quadrant mode (0 failed), --verify-dirty 90/90; screenshots regenerated.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

Blast Radius: stars and particles in every wallpaper; dot glyphs (·, ∙, •) depend on the terminal font.