Lumen is built as an optical system: how light scatters inside glass, how it disperses across wavelengths, and how it lands on film.
Real lenses don’t scatter light in a neat Gaussian — they throw a tight core with a long, faint tail that reaches clear across the frame. Lumen builds its bloom from eight cascaded blurs at geometric scales, summed under a single Falloff curve. Drop Falloff and the energy spreads into wide atmospheric haze. Raise it and the bloom collapses to tight halation hugging your highlights. One dial, the entire vocabulary of lens bloom.
Chromatic aberration built on actual optical dispersion curves — Crown, Flint, Fluorite, Dense Flint — sampling 700nm and 430nm against a 550nm reference. Radial, linear, or angular, around a decenterable optical axis — so it radiates from where the light actually is, not from frame center. Not an RGB channel offset pretending to be optics.
Every pass runs in linear 16-bit float. 32-bit super-whites survive to the composite intact, on an HDR-safe Screen blend that holds hue past unity — where the textbook formula inverts it.
Not an overlay — a silver-halide crystal model that grows inside the light and rides its falloff, so your blacks stay clean.
Cellular noise shapes the threshold itself, so the glow breathes and drifts instead of sitting still.
Stretch the bloom wide and compress it vertically for scope-lens flare.
Ownership
Lumen Glow is a perpetual license. The build you paid for keeps working, and nothing stops mid-project because a subscription ended.
No release date yet. We will email when there is something real to show, and nothing else.
