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23 Apr 2024 07:25:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: image based normal maps?  
From: clipka
Date: 19 Jan 2019 09:01:58
Message: <5c432dd6$1@news.povray.org>
Am 19.01.2019 um 13:25 schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> On 17-1-2019 12:30, Bald Eagle wrote:
>> There may be a quicker / neater way to do it with a function pattern 
>> or pattern
>> function ..... but I'd use those as keywords to search the docs and 
>> the forum
>> posts.
>>
>>
> Following up on the initial query by cloudyroo, I tried to get this to 
> work as a function pattern in a normal block but without success... :-/
> 
> I must admit that something escapes me and/or I misunderstand the 
> docs... Neither found any info in the forum posts... I seem not to have 
> my day ;-)

This is not a bump map (in which brightness is interpreted as height, 
and the normal is defined by the gradient in the image) but a normal map 
(in which the three colour channels are interpreted directly as the 
coordinates ot the normal vectors).


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