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5 Aug 2024 16:14:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Smooth triangles?  
From: Tim Nikias
Date: 26 Aug 2002 13:33:06
Message: <3d6a6652$1@news.povray.org>
> I'm not sure, it is possible the magnitude affects the weighting of the
> normals when they are interpolated across the triangle. Try normalizing
> the normal vectors you specify.

I don't know about the weighting, but the surface-vectors should
be one-unit in size. POV doesn't normalize them internally, and in
my experience, using other than unit-sized vector lead to strange
looking surfaces...

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Tim Nikias
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