Using Warps read me file for his mesh smoother, I find that normalizing
the normal vectors of each triangle, then averaging them, works the
best. Of course, if you are using the vcross command to find your
normals, remember that the length of the resultant vector has a length
of the dot product, which will be at it's maximum when the vectors are
orthogonal (ie, 90 degrees apart).

Since this doens't make a lot of sence, I'll try to have a few pictures
for you soon.

Josh

Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba wrote:

> I have point O and points P1, P2, ... PN
> connected as traingles P1OP2, P2OP3, ..., PN-1OPN, PNOP1
> I want calculate best normal at point O for all this triangles.
> Should it be simple normalized summary of all normals
> or waighted one depend of areas of each triangle ?
> Maybe other way ?
>
> ABX

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