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In 3D cumputer graphics: a more advanced version of bump mapping. While bump mapping uses grayscale variance, normal mapping uses the three color channel (RGB) for the 3 dimensions (XYZ). Like bump mapping, it is used to add details to shading without using more polygons.

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