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From: "Charles Nicholson" <chnicholson@vassar.edu>
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Subject: Re: Normal Vector Directon
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:40:17 -0500
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Absolutely.  The dot product between your triangle's normal (at full
brightness) and the light source is 0, because they're orthagonal to each
other.

-charles

>... ah, so to leave the point order out of it and to ask the question in a
>different way:-
>if you were facing the triangle and the light source was directly behind
>you and the surface of the triangle appeared at full brightness would the
>normal vector be pointing away from you or pointing towards you and poking
>in your eye still?!
>
>... thanks again,
>Jon.