Disadvantages of Normal Mapping
- Limited use: Normal maps do not modify the underlying geometry, so they are suitable for only creating small details in the geometry. In other cases, the actual geometry should be modified.
- Creating normal maps: Creating high-quality normal maps requires special skills and specialized software. In some cases, the normal maps are needed to be created manually, which is a difficult task.
Normal Mapping in Computer Graphics
Computer Graphics has improved a lot in recent years. Nowadays it is much more realistic whether it is animated 3D videos or games. However, rendering such graphics with great detail can be quite hardware-intensive. That’s where normal mapping comes into the picture. It is a technique in computer graphics that uses mathematical computations to create detailed and realistic graphics without using extra polygons. It is a popular method for optimizing the rendering of computer graphics and adding details to it simultaneously. This technique uses something called normal maps which is a 2D image that contains information about the normals of the 3D object. In this article, we will look at what exactly is normal mapping.
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