Quote - And here's a render. The highlight is shaped like a jelly fish. I'm stumped. Is the only thing that works the grid-like sampling you did, odf?

I honestly don't know the answer to that. The reason it looks the way it does is because I modeled the eye with very few polygons (be it 128 or 176) and then did a Catmull-Clark subdivision to obtain the hi-res version. In the original mesh I did something pretty similar to what you've described in order to avoid 'poles' and reduce the mesh density in the center.

I think in order to understand this phenomenon fully one would have to know Poser's algorithm for interpolation surface normals.

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