Diaphragm (optics) bright spots, for example night cityscapes. Some cameras, such as the Olympus XA or lenses such as the MC Zenitar-ME1, however, use a two-bladed diaphragm with right-angle blades creating a square aperture. Similarly, out-of-focus points of light (circles of confusion) appear as polygons with the same number of sides as the aperture has blades. If the blurred light is circular, then it can be inferred that the aperture is either round or the image was shot "wide-open" (with the blades recessed into the sides of the lens, allowing the interior edge of the lens barrel to effectively become the iris).
As the Flower Withers in 1999, which is more similar in style to the original, being a full band composition. "The Bitterness and the Bereavement" evolved from an earlier demo, which was released independently as "Unreleased Bitterness" in 1993. This version of the song also appears on the digipak re-release of "As the Flower Withers", and on the rarities/best-of compilation "Meisterwerk 1". "Vast Choirs" is a reworked version of the version that appears on the band's first recording, "Towards the Sinister". This version is widely available on both "Meisterwerk 2" and the 2004 reissue of "Trinity". "The Return of the Beautiful" was re-recorded for