"Kirk Andrews" <kir### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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>
> I'm trying to have a texture that has large facets, but with smaller 
> facets
> between.  So I averaged a large facet normal and small facet normal, but 
> in
> the result the facets are so faint you can hardly see either of them.
>

I don't know if it would be of any use in your circumstances, but I've found 
that for flat surfaces it can be effective to scale the normal in a 
direction at right angles to the surface. I've included a simple but extreme 
example below.

camera {location <0,1,-1>}
light_source { <1, 20, -20> color rgb 1}

plane {y,0 rotate  z*0.001
  texture {
    pigment {color rgb 1}
    normal {granite}
  }
}
plane {y,0 rotate -z*0.001
  texture {
    pigment {color rgb 1}
    normal {granite scale <1,10,1>}
  }
}

Regards,
Chris B.

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