{"id":187,"date":"2007-02-16T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2007-02-16T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T00:15:09","slug":"computed-face-normals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/16\/computed-face-normals\/","title":{"rendered":"Computed face normals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOne of the reasons I&#8217;m glad I chose <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ogre3d.org\">Ogre 3D<\/a> is the level of support available from the community.  In only 3 hours I went from wanting to compute face normals to doing so, and rendering lines to show them too (something I also didn&#8217;t have).  Both the computations and the rendering lines mostly came from the Ogre Wiki.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/images\/faceNormals.jpg\" alt=\"Face normals\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Getting to this stage at my last job took about a day and a half, and that was with the graphics programmer sitting across from me, and already having line and point rendering tools.<\/p>\n<p>If I went with some other graphics engine, it&#8217;s unlikely I would have been able to do this in any reasonable amount of time.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I&#8217;m glad I chose Ogre 3D is the level of support available from the community. In only 3 hours I went from wanting to compute face normals to doing so, and rendering lines to show them too (something I also didn&#8217;t have). Both the computations and the rendering lines mostly came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}