Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> here_I_am nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/02/15 07:57:
> > stbenge <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> >> here_I_am wrote:
> >>> Hey everybody!
> >>>
> >>> I am in the middle of a project, where i have to do smooth shading from a scene
> >>> file of 15000 triangles which have thge data as triangles rather that having in
> >>> smooth_traingle.And since the number of triangles is very large I simple can't
> >>> calculate vnormalize(vcross(v1-v2,v3-v2)) manually and implement to
> >>> smooth_triangle for every triangle
> >>>
> >>> And I am not sure how to implement this thing with a function or something.
> >>> SO plz help me out here.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >> These guys mean well, but they go off on a slight tangent sometimes :)
> >>
> >> You want something easy, right? I've got two solutions for you:
> >>
> >> 1) PoseRay
> >> You can import a basic mesh (even POV format, evidently), add smoothing
> >> to it, and export it to POV.
> >> http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/
> >>
> >> 2) POV-Sub
> >> Download POV-Sub for POV-Ray version 3.6. You can apply smoothing to
> >> your mesh directly in POV, without actually subdividing it.
> >> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~xwu/Pov-Sub/
> >>
> >> Good luck!
> >>
> >> Sam
> >
> >
> > Hey thanks everybody...PoseRay worked well for me. :)
> >
> > But I have this little doubt...actually I did modified my scene file in
> > Java.What I did was...I had all the vertices for all the triangles so I
> > calculated normal for each triangle..and used the same normal for all the
> > vertices for this semantics.... smooth_triangle{ v1,n,v2,n,v3,n}
> > I thought this should have been worked but it didn't..So could you please
> > explain this to me..why this didnt worked??
> >
> >
> >
> >
> The way you put it, all the normals are the same, resulting in a flat aspect.
>
> It should be:
> smooth_triangle{ v1,n1,v2,n2,v3,n3}
>
> --
> Alain
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Thanx Alain and everybody :)

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