How to smooth the Shape?

Hello all,
I made a MyCylinder Shape3D with TriangleArray.
I use every division=20. But I found it not smooth enough.
but the Class Cylinder(in com.sun.j3d.utils) to generate a
cylinder with the same division but it looks so smooth.
I review the resource code of the utils but haven't got the key!
may it need to setTexCoordinate?
Who can help me!
Thanks

may it need to setTexCoordinate?
No that is for placing images on the object. Handy if you wan't to make
Did you set the normals? These are used for calculation the shade.

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