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The remaining commands in the Display Menu control the visual display of the object(s) in the 3D View window:
- Flat-Shaded: This option changes the visual representation of the selected objects to flat shaded representation. Rendered geometry is polyhedral in general. In the flat shaded representation, a color is used for each face of the polyhedron based on normals at all the vertices of the face. Edges would still show since neighboring faces may not have the same normal at the edges.
- Smooth-Shaded: This option changes the visual representation of the selected objects to smooth shaded representation. Rendered geometry is polyhedral in general. Smooth shading averages the normals at the polyhedral edges and vertices of different faces, so the shading appears smooth and continuous.
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