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| corTeX / Optimum  11 aug. 1998     |
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A flare effect: Halo + sparkling
( sort of a big 'flashouilli'( see the flashouilli page) )

This effect DOESNT USE SPRITE:
the halo (shaded disc) is calculated, as the shaded
and anti-aliased segments.

Halo is more or less optimum; segments, however, use many DIVs etc..

Adds of color on pixels is easy to do with a monochrome shaded
8bits palette, but its more complicated with 16bpp (for 24bpp its
only 3 times 8bits); so here I use a 8bits buffer that I convert
before displaying.

Ok, its midnight, I've still the HTML page to do, the one of the
next effect (inf plane), yesterday I didnt sleep, and tomorrow
i must awake to go to my stage... leaving !..


corTeX / Optimum, during his summer stage...