POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Lens Flare : Re: Lens Flare Server Time
17 Aug 2024 04:16:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Lens Flare  
From: Slime
Date: 7 Nov 2001 11:38:32
Message: <3be96388$1@news.povray.org>
Hmm, if you did this without any objects in the scene, and outputted
transparency, you could use the resulting image to create image maps for
*quick* lens flares.

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"Trevor Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:3be9602f@news.povray.org...
> With regards to ht ethread in p.g, here is a sample image of a 'real' lens
> flare.  As you can see, a lot of work still needs to be done to perfect
it,
> but I don't think I'm going to try at the moment, the rendering is too
time
> consuming.  This scene took 17m  with no AA, no media, no isosurfaces,
just
> reflection/refraction through a lens system.
>
> BTW, the light source is not in front of the camera, it is its reflection
on
> the sphere that makes it visible.
>
> -tgq
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