Normal Vectors and Their Applications in Computer Graphics

This video discusses normal vectors, how they work, how to calculate them, and a variety of uses in computer graphics including baking normals on a plane to fool the lighting system into thinking there is more complicated geometry on the 3D model.

I also have another YouTube channel where I do beginner tutorials for Blender: @howtuts6591

[dylanparker]

Really cool stuff. I wonder if this could help with projections of surfaces (e.g. a tube or torus) onto a 2D plane - help to distinguish between the points which are closer and points which are further from the viewer?

[mystic]

Wow, this is legit amazing work. More people need to see this, it is very well made 👏👏

[nuwahasan]

Omg thank you so so much 😭😭💖💖💖💖there's a vfx artist who said it would be a plus learn this topic, so here am I, and you explained it perfectly 😭💖💖💖💖

[harald]

thank u for this awsome video I have been trying to cauculate the normal Vectors for my 3d terrain generator on the GPU and all the methods didnt work exept your method. Great Video!

[CameronHendry-wf]

Yo who else is watching this video because of our CALC 3 class?

[Markty]

a vector can be a single number if you live in 1D