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From: Phil Gooch <philg@nospam.easynet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: What is a normal?
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:46:29 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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I keep hearing people talking about 'normals' in relation to polygons/3D
stuff.

Could someone explain to me what a normal is?

I know what a vertice and a polygon is, and I understand about matrices
and vectors, if that helps!

Phil