Subject: Fading Lens Flares...
From: David Warner <[email-masked]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:10:48 -0700

On Wed, 24 Apr 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> Since the camara will get close to some 
> of them, just having a lens flare wouldn't be enough.

This brings up something I've been wondering about for quite a 
while...ever since lens flares became available, in fact.

Why do lens flares fade in intensity as the camera gets closer to them?

This can be a real pain to work around sometimes...I usually end up having
to create an intensity envelope that ramps up as the camera gets closer to
the lens flare, but it is far from a perfect solution.  Anyone found a
better way of dealing with this idiosyncracy of LW lens flares?

                                     -David Warner
                                      [email-masked]
                                      http://www.albany.net/~dwarner

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