Here is one using a ball as a lens by flattening the ball
to 40%. This is using only the refraction node and set to 1.000.
All other material settings are either black or 0.0000
I tried giving the lens a greenish tint by
putting some color in the Refraction color, but I am
getting some sort of interferance pattern. I suppose
I could play around with it some more, but I should
call it a night.