Rohan Bernett <rox### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> This is exactly what I am talking about when I made the original post! I
> want to know how to do it mainly for academic purposes. If I just wanted a
> lens flare, I might go and use someone else's addon, but I want to know how
> to do it myself. And I'm surprised that more people don't want to do this
> as well.

  To me it suffices to know how it does it. I don't have any special
interest in duplicating the work myself.

  Knowing how things work internally is important. If you know how it works,
you know if it's appropriate for certain tasks (eg. performace-wise) and
if problems arise (eg. artifacts in rendering) you will probably have a good
idea about why they happen, and perhaps even an idea how to solve them.
  If you don't have the slightest idea about how it works internally, then
you could use it in the wrong way (eg. too inefficiently) and if problems
arise you will probably not know what to do.

  However, knowing how it works and implementing it are two different things.
I usually am not interested in the latter.

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