"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> schreef in bericht 
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>I seem to be suffering a bit of creative drought.

Really??  :-)

> Uh... anyway... The cool black hole effect is achieved with a refractive 
> object shaped so that it has no refraction at the edges when viewed from 
> the camera's point of view, effectively making it a 2D distortion. I then 
> use several such objects at different distances to create the event 
> horizon, the "sucking" effect, and the smaller distortion on the ship.

I am not sure I understand the technical part, but it is very clever 
nonetheless.
To make it even better: black holes spin usually, dragging light with them. 
Could you simulate that distortion too?

Thomas

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