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Essential Skills for 3D Modeling, Rendering, and Animation
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Essential Skills for 3D Modeling, Rendering, and Animation

by Nicholas Bernhardt Zeman
November 2014
Beginner
270 pages
7h 22m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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like wires, and because of this, it is very easy to adhere a projected curve
to the shape of the surface. e curve will maintain the surface contour if
the surface is changed.
What can we do with this curve now that it has been projected? e
rst thing we do is use it to create a trim. In order to create a trim, we
need a closed or periodic curve. You can see how generating a trim sur-
face will “cut” a hole in that surface in the exact shape of the curve.
Alternatively, you can create a surface with just the projected curve, which
will leave you with a surface in the shape o ...
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ISBN: 9781482224122