In article <406711cd$1@news.povray.org>,
 Severi Salminen <sev### [at] NOT_THISsibafi> wrote:

> It is quite odd that they are turned off by default. I'd guess that 
> people using normals would also like to see them regardless of the 
> source of the light...

Well, much of the time, the effects of normals + radiosity don't 
contribute much to the scene, and taking them into account makes things 
slower. As I recall, the earlier versions of radiosity never took 
normals into account, it was an added feature, so backwards 
compatibility may have been some part of the decision.

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