fix normal discontinuity in SDF conePills #779
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Cone pills implement a smooth profile (sigmoid-like). Unfortunately, this creates discontinuities in the normals as shown on this render:

This pull request fixes this:

As explained in this article we could use either the
smooth()
function, or thesmoother()
function, which have slightly different stepness.Here using smooth:

I am not certain what is the better solution in this case.