POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.utilities : Online files converter : Re: Online files converter Server Time
16 Oct 2025 12:44:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Online files converter  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 13 Oct 2025 13:25:00
Message: <web.68ed35dec908933644e64d2825979125@news.povray.org>
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> When I convert it to SMOOTH triangles (the default at your conversion site), the
> cube appears CORRECT as to inside/outside colors. That surprised me.
>
> When I convert it to FLAT triangles, the inside/outside is *reversed*.

I'm going to just speculate that since mesh2 and smooth_triangle both allow the
user to specify what the normal vector is, then perhaps that overrides whatever
normal would be calculated based upon the ordering of the vertices.

- BW


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