#GameDev #ComputerGraphics #Normals #Meshes I am already well familiar with the concepts of vertex and face normals, and I know ways to calculate them for simple, or even quite complex cases. Simple being all smooth, or all facetted. Moderately complex being where we have some sharp and some smooth edges, maybe based on an angular threshold, and can share or split verts/normals accordingly.

But... but... what do we do when the mix of sharp and smooth edges is ambiguous, like in the picture. The red edge is sharp and the three blue ones are smooth, so how do we treat the 4 polygons where they meet at the vertex? There is no clean division between polys which connect smoothly and ones which should be separate rotating anticlockwise from A to D, all the edges should be smooth, so A should share a normal with B, and thus with C and eventually D, but going the other way, from A straight to D, we'd like the line to be sharp and we'd like them not to share. Obviously we can't have both. It's a puzzler...

Reading #relationship books written for “#normals” when your partner
has a #ClusterB #PersonalityDisorder is like reading a how to build a birdhouse
manual in order to learn how to swim safely with sharks.

In other words, it's not going to help.

A relationship with a #narcissist, #borderline, #histrionic or Cluster B variety pack isn't dysfunctional and toxic due to the issues non-disordered people have in relationships. The problems aren't due to deficient #CommunicationSkills. Nor is because you don't "speak their #LoveLanguage." And it isn't because you're from Mars/Venus and they're from Uranus -- or whatever not take #responsibility-#BlameShifting-#DARVO bullshit excuse they concoct.

It's because they have an un/diagnosed personality disorder. Their love language is Crazy. They lack the fundamental emotional and psychological capacity to have a healthy and reciprocal emotionally mature relationship built upon mutual respect and empathy.

Furthermore, being more empathic, patient and "loving them harder" isn't going to help you either. That advice results in more #enabling, #codependence and #TraumaBonding -- not more love.

Again, the real issues are the #NPD, #BPD, #HPD character pathology, which can't be fixed. And your #codependency, #peoplepleasing, #traumahealing, etc., which you can work on.

If you want to learn how to have healthier relationships, read about how to best protect yourself from emotionally manipulative liars/predators and how to address your codependency and family of origin issues because nothing else is going to work.

#AbuseHasNoGender #TheMoreYouKnow

It's clear from the number of #Blender3D files with flipped #normals I've opened that many people aren't working this way. Here's a reasonable way to always know the status of your normals while working on models vs always seeing the blue+red when face orientation is on. #b3d

Simply put: faces look normal when the normals are normal & red when they're not.

idk if this is #autism, #adhd or #trauma or just being a total #weirdo but sometimes I wish I only knew like 5-10 people so I could keep careful track of our #relationships and not make as many #mistakes

I would take notes on all our #interactions and never #forget an #important thing and then hopefully no one would have to be upset ever

there are far too many #people for me to be as #careful with each one as I would like to be and I #worry about letting people down

#anyoneelse worry about this or is it absolute #nonsense to all you #normals 😅