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      <div class="title_topic6" id="xps10_pagetitle">Method Options</div>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('visualizing_a_part/vie_vis_hq_ov.html');return(false);">Overview</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('visualizing_a_part/vie_vis_hq_ht.html');return(false);">How To</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('visualizing_a_part/vie_vis_hq_op.html');return(false);">Dialog Options</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">The Method option allows you to select the quality of the generated image. Flat, Photo-Realistic, and Phong methods are provided with basic NX, while additional, higher quality methods come with the extended High Quality Image package.</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Option</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Description</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Flat</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Fastest shading method. Each facet is assigned a uniform color.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Gouraud</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Provides smooth interpolated colors. Not quite as fast as Flat shading.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Phong</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Provides smoother highlights than Gouraud shading, but otherwise supports the same level of functionality.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Improved</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Shading with textures material parameters highlights and shadows. Similar quality to photo-realistic but significantly faster. (Available only with High Quality Image.)</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Preview</p>
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               <p class="para_td">An improvement over the Improved method. Preview adds support for transparency without the requirement to also anti-alias the image.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Photo-Realistic</p>
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               <p class="para_td">All the features of the Improved method, plus support for anti-aliasing and transparency. Images shaded with this mode could take two to three times longer to render than those using the Improved method. (Available only with High Quality Image.)</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Ray Traced</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Produces photo-realistic images generated with ray tracing. This method is slower than photo-realistic, but it correctly anti-aliases, or renders, textures. (Available only with High Quality Image.)</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Ray Traced/FFA</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Same as the Ray Traced option, but with Feature Following Anti-aliasing.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Radiosity</p>
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               <p class="para_td">An iterative light processing method where indirect lighting in a scene is derived from direct light bouncing off of surfaces before an image is rendered. Use this method when physically accurate lighting is required for your modeled scene. (Available only with High Quality Image.)</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Hybrid Radiosity</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Uses standard rendering techniques to calculate direct lighting together with radiosity processing for indirect lighting for image rendering.  Use this method over Radiosity when precise direct lighting effects are also required. (Available only with High Quality Image.)</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">A summary of the shading features available with each method is shown in the following  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('visualizing_a_part/vie_vis_hq_method_summary_r.html');return(false);">table</a>.
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