The reason I'm not happy with the solution of disabling smooth polygons is because then your figures will look chunky, if you show them up close. I prefer to use polygon smoothing, and deal with its ramifications.

If you're not going to show anything up close, then turning off polygon smoothing is a fine solution.

But you should understand all your options, because you'll get in another situation where you really don't want to disable polygon smoothing

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)