<\/a>This is what I’m struggling with right now.<\/p>\nIn discussions about shadows, these sorts of odd striations and blemishes are generally referred to as “self-shadow surface acne”. They’re commonly caused by math imprecision when a surface (such as here, the mountain) throws a shadow onto itself.\u00a0 The shadow-caster and the shadow-receiver are so close together (ie: directly on top of one another), that sometimes the math flips their order around.\u00a0 This results in these interesting stripe patterns.<\/p>\n
Hope it doesn’t take me too long to sort them out.\u00a0 I’d really like to finish shadows today and get back to items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is what I’m struggling with right now. In discussions about shadows, these sorts of odd striations and blemishes are generally referred to as “self-shadow surface acne”. They’re commonly caused by math imprecision when a surface (such as here, the mountain) throws a shadow onto itself.\u00a0 The shadow-caster and the shadow-receiver are so close together…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-E8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}