I've had no internet at home for the last 2 months, but that doesn't mean I 
haven't been povving! This is something I came up with a few weeks ago. I'm 
probably not the first person to attempt this, but I decided to experiment 
with lens flare/bloom effects without any post-processing.

The trick is there's a mirror behind the camera with multiple normal maps 
blended together (by averaging the texture), and another mirror just in 
front of the camera that's part-reflective part-transparent. The transparent 
part lets us see the scene, the reflective part shows the mirror behind, 
which reflects multiple rays to trace all the samples needed for lens flare.

This is a ludicrously elaborate way to do things, and makes a simple scene 
take AGES to render, but it's kind of fun to play with these things :)

I'll post an animation in p.b.a and source in p.b.s-f shortly...

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Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

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