Bloom strangeness

Something very strange is going on with the bloom effect that I’ve been playing with, recently; here’s a really good screenshot of it. See how the glow seem to occur in little evenly-spaced circles along the length of the straight lines? That can’t possibly be correct.. Yay, shader debugging!

The new lens flare

They say that bloom is the new lens flare. So I said to myself, who am I to fight Them? I mean, what with Their black helicopters and mind control rays and everything, I wouldn’t stand a chance.. This is still a work in progress; the code is based on the algorithms discussed at Philip…