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.
For the demonstrations we utilize Blender, a free open source 3D modeling and animation program: www.blender.org/
I also have another CZcams channel where I do beginner tutorials for Blender: ‪@howtuts6591‬

[@zdspider6778]

Interesting presentation. Well done.

[@nuwahasan8532]

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 😭💖💖💖💖

[@khoavo5758]

Useful info, thanks!

[@harald4704]

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!

[@mystic7132]

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

[@manifoldsinmaryland]

Thank you so much 😀

[@dylanparker130]

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?

[@user-dg1ib1si9p]

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

[@Markty07]

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