Normal Mapping

Computer Graphics · Geometry and Intersection · normal-mapping.yaml

Stores the perturbed normal directly in a tangent-space texture instead of deriving it from height differences, which removes the derivative computation and allows normals baked from a high-resolution mesh.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

This node

• specializesis a specific case of Bump Mappingstores the normal itself rather than a height

Referenced by

• correctsParallax Occlusion Mapping fixes a defect in thisperturbed normals give no parallax or self-occlusion

References

• Background — Normal mapping on Wikipedia