December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 45m
English
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Knifing polygons
Sometimes you need more polygons just so you can create more detail. There are different ways of doing this to create polygons that fit different needs. The first way is to knife them. This just means that you're cutting through the polygons in a straight line to create more points that you can play with. In the following diagram, we knifed the object on each axis, and dragged the center points in each view to make our object into more of a ball. You may recognize this object from an earlier diagram: