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19 Apr 2024 17:09:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Asteroid Normal Map  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 4 Oct 2019 06:53:57
Message: <5d9724c5$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/3/19 9:01 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> See if this is what you're looking for.  It's my best guess so far.
> 

Good morning. I've been following this discussion as you've been sorting 
out what's needed.

Am I right it's looking like orthographic camera(s) for the 2d image and 
also to generate an rgb normal image for any particular orientation of 
the object?

If yes, did you generate the normal map on the right with the trace 
command? Asking because I've long carried around the question of whether 
trace returns the raw normal or the texture perturbed raw-normal. Your 
image, if done with trace, makes me think it returns the raw normal.

My uses of trace have needed only the raw normals - the shapes I've 
traced have no explicit texture normal applied.

Bill P.


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