shading normal vector
List of: Glossary Items
Subjects: Rendering Control
Contents: Glossary

A shading normal vector is a normal vector that an application may attach to the vertices of facets. This may be used in preference to the geometric normal vector in shading operations to avoid faceting artifacts.
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