Normal mapping

Normal mapping - Texturing technique for bumps/dents in computer graphics. Article “Normal mapping” in Italian Wikipedia has 8.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Normal mapping”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 267 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 323 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #6498 in December 2010
• Global: #22194 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #124172 in March 2015
• Global: #101183 in January 2008

There are 15 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Normal mapping		36.2902
2	Finnish (fi) Normaalikartoitus		27.1921
3	Catalan (ca) Normal mapping		25.667
4	Chinese (zh) 法线贴图		25.5314
5	Korean (ko) 법선 매핑		19.071
6	Polish (pl) Mapowanie normalnych		19.0322
7	Japanese (ja) 法線マッピング		10.5701
8	Arabic (ar) خريطة النواظم		10.1879
9	Italian (it) Normal mapping		8.8875
10	German (de) Normal Mapping		4.7466

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Normal mapping" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Normal mapping		1 634 468
2	German (de) Normal Mapping		145 757
3	Spanish (es) Mapeado normal		130 510
4	Japanese (ja) 法線マッピング		118 870
5	Chinese (zh) 法线贴图		104 165
6	Polish (pl) Mapowanie normalnych		83 351
7	French (fr) Normal mapping		74 786
8	Italian (it) Normal mapping		42 759
9	Portuguese (pt) Normal map		27 973
10	Korean (ko) 법선 매핑		12 126

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Normal mapping" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Normal mapping		4 413
2	Chinese (zh) 法线贴图		449
3	Japanese (ja) 法線マッピング		307
4	French (fr) Normal mapping		213
5	German (de) Normal Mapping		162
6	Spanish (es) Mapeado normal		110
7	Italian (it) Normal mapping		97
8	Polish (pl) Mapowanie normalnych		69
9	Portuguese (pt) Normal map		54
10	Korean (ko) 법선 매핑		53

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Normal mapping" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Normal mapping		127
2	German (de) Normal Mapping		27
3	French (fr) Normal mapping		22
4	Italian (it) Normal mapping		22
5	Chinese (zh) 法线贴图		19
6	Polish (pl) Mapowanie normalnych		15
7	Arabic (ar) خريطة النواظم		10
8	Spanish (es) Mapeado normal		6
9	Japanese (ja) 法線マッピング		6
10	Portuguese (pt) Normal map		6

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Normal mapping" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) خريطة النواظم		2
2	Finnish (fi) Normaalikartoitus		1
3	Catalan (ca) Normal mapping		0
4	German (de) Normal Mapping		0
5	English (en) Normal mapping		0
6	Spanish (es) Mapeado normal		0
7	Persian (fa) نگاشت نرمال		0
8	French (fr) Normal mapping		0
9	Italian (it) Normal mapping		0
10	Japanese (ja) 法線マッピング		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Normal mapping" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Normal mapping		106
2	Spanish (es) Mapeado normal		30
3	German (de) Normal Mapping		28
4	Japanese (ja) 法線マッピング		21
5	Korean (ko) 법선 매핑		21
6	French (fr) Normal mapping		20
7	Italian (it) Normal mapping		20
8	Chinese (zh) 法线贴图		20
9	Polish (pl) Mapowanie normalnych		17
10	Portuguese (pt) Normal map		13

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic خريطة النواظم
ca	Catalan Normal mapping
de	German Normal Mapping
en	English Normal mapping
es	Spanish Mapeado normal
fa	Persian نگاشت نرمال
fi	Finnish Normaalikartoitus
fr	French Normal mapping
it	Italian Normal mapping
ja	Japanese 法線マッピング
ko	Korean 법선 매핑
pl	Polish Mapowanie normalnych
pt	Portuguese Normal map
th	Thai นอร์มัลแมปปิง
zh	Chinese 法线贴图

Best Rank

Italian: #124172 03.2015

Global: #101183 01.2008

Best Rank

Italian: #6498 12.2010

Global: #22194 01.2004

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