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13 Aug 2024 19:24:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: bump_maps, Phong, specular  
From: Dan Connelly
Date: 27 Sep 1998 19:05:32
Message: <360EB6AA.C69635CD@flash.net>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Dan Connelly wrote:

> > Don't take my choice too seriously..... some folks use Phong
> > and others specular.  I choose the former because the docs
> > claim it is more realistic, but I can't claim this is an
> > otherwise educated preference.
> 
> I generaly will use specular over phong in my scenes too.
> Phong seems to me to make the highlights too large.
> There are exeptions to this, of course, but it takes experimentaion
> to decide when one is better than the other.

Whoops!  Ken fortunately saw through my typo.  I should
have said I choose the "latter" (ie specular).

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