Appearance of Low Poly Meshes
Objects that are said to be low poly often appear blocky (such as square heads) and lacking in detail (such as no individual fingers). Objects that are supposed to be circular or spherical are most obviously low poly as the number of triangles needed to make a curve appear smooth is high and polygons are restricted to straight edges. Low poly meshes do not necessarily look bad, for example a flat sheet of paper represented by one polygon looks extremely accurate.
Computer graphics techniques such as normal and bump mapping have been designed to make a low poly object appear to contain more polygons than it does. This is done by altering the shading of polygons to contain internal detail which is not in the mesh.
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