Ron Parker <par### [at] fwicom> wrote:
: One problem I can see is that it would be possible to create
: pathological objects that might get shaded incorrectly as a result of
: this workaround.  Non-closed, non-convex objects come to mind
: immediately.  Perhaps we should make the workaround more explicit by
: specifically having a "no self-shadowing" keyword?  Non-convex objects
: still would act funny, but you could work around that if you needed to
: by clever use of CSG.

  Yes, I think that the fixed shading should be optional too.
  However, I don't think that a "no self-shadowing" option would be good
for this. Sometimes you really want the object to cast shadows on itself
(a cup of coffee comes immediately to my mind).
  I really think that this fix should be a separated option of its own and
that it should work the way I said.

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