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11 Aug 2024 15:15:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: normal calculation  
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Date: 27 Jun 1999 10:29:30
Message: <wbd7yhsomu.fsf@tycho.oslo.infostream.no>
[Andreas Gerdes <ger### [at] netcolognede>]
| Does that mean, that I simply have to add these normals and divide them by
| their number?

Yes, but make sure your normals are of the same length and that they 
are pointing in the same direction relative to the surface. (Clockwise
vs. counterclockwise triangles)

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