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19 Aug 2024 08:20:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Chris: isn't black "down"?  
From: Lance Birch
Date: 16 Dec 2000 22:10:09
Message: <3a3c2e91@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> Chris H, here is a cube with the checker pattern used as a normal.  It
> looks to me like the black areas are down, the white areas are up.  I
> thought that this would be a teaching moment for me but I think I'm
> sticking to my guns.  Have I really misunderstood this?
>
> Obviously, I know there's no change to the real "surface," but it looks
> to me like the normal algorithm is making white things up black things
> down.

Isn't that how it's supposed to be?  Just like in bump maps?

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Lance.

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