POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Bump map disables smoothing of heightfield?: Re: Bump map disables smoothing of heightfield?

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From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 4 Jun 2003 12:34:47
Message: <cjameshuff-684433.11273004062003@netplex.aussie.org>

In article <3ede0f01$1@news.povray.org>, "Slime" <slm### [at] slimelandcom> 
wrote:

> Couldn't/Shouldn't the bump map just modify the smoothed normal instead of
> the original surface normal?

That's what I'm wondering...the height field normal code handles the 
smoothing, and shouldn't interact with bump mapping, which is just a 
normal pattern. Do other normals do this? I can't find anything in the 
source that would explain it.

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