visual overload (Score 1)

As an artist, I have seen entirely too many lens flare effects used in print and other static media. It seems to me that people try to use the addition of a flare to add excitement to an image, but it has become too much.... As far as games and other interactive media are concerned, however, I think that the use of the lens flare could be nice.... Think about driving a car up a hill towards the west in the evening...as you crest the hill, you are temporarily blinded. This could be another interesting use for lens-flare like image manipulations.... I do not have any idea how the math behind the photoshop filter works, but it could be very useful to explore, and possibly create new ways of manipulating the virtual in ways that cannot yet be done in the physical world.... This kind of visual stimulus could really change perceptions! Now thats exciting.