setScalar = function(target, source, propertyId)
            {
                var value = source[propertyId];

                var currentValue = target[propertyId];
                if (!Alpaca.isUndefined(currentValue) && !Alpaca.isUndefined(value))
                {
                    Alpaca.logDebug("View property: " + propertyId + " already has value: " + currentValue + " and overwriting to: " + value);
                }

                if (!Alpaca.isUndefined(value)) {
                    target[propertyId] = value;
                }
            }
Normalization occurs once per view upon startup of Alpaca.