I believe any normal is going to be surface-only dependant.  So uneven
scaling will probably average out, maybe.  Like <1,5,3>=3 perhaps for the
"depth".  The person to answer decisively of course would be the author of
that particular change.

Bob

"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> In the documentation for MacMegaPOV, it says "Now, whenever you scale a
> normal pattern or an object that has a surface normal, the depth
> (amount) of the normal will scale proportionally.".
>
> Now, for most cases, this is fine, but what does it do when the normal
> is unevenly scaled? Like if you scale it by scale < 1, 5, 3>. How is the
> depth of the normal affected in this case?
>
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