William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> The reflections which are there are no longer fuzzy though, which has me
> puzzling. A significant number are pointing away / against the raw
> surface normal sphere rather than mostly being aligned. Guessing we are
> hitting some limit where maybe the perturbed normal gets ignored or
> something except maybe for being inverted. I don't know! I'd have to
> spend more time in the code to figure it out. The question is rattling
> around up there in my empty space - maybe the reasons will fully come to me.

If you have a "+" normal, and a "-" normal of the same magnitude adjacent to one
another, does the intermediate region get interpolated, and therefore the two
normals cancel?

Perhaps if you apply AOI or SLOPE pigment patterns, you can pick up "flat"
regions on the surface?   Maybe that's somewhere that your RAW thing will help?


Just guessing.

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