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From: "Charles Nicholson" <chnicholson@vassar.edu>
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Subject: Re: Normal Vector Directon
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 11:12:43 -0500
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Organizing the points in your triangles so that they go clockwise "tells"
the renderer which side is facing out.  In your case, the normal would
simply be { 0,0,ONE }, because it is, in fact, poking your eye.

hope i helped
-charles

>If you were facing a triangular polygon with the points defined in a
>clockwise direction, would the normal be pointing away from you,  or
>pointing towards you and poking in your eye?
>
>Jon