Well the sucking effect is created using a funny shaped lens, but as far as 
I know it's impossible to make a lens that will rotate things...
Although maybe if I stick a radial normal on there... hmm...

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote in message 
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>>I seem to be suffering a bit of creative drought.
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> Really??  :-)
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>> 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.
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> 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?
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