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Setting Shape detail with Interpolation

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Setting Shape detail with Interpolation

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- [Instructor] If you look closely at a shape or a spline object, you may see that it isn't actually perfectly curved. My crescent moon here has got some kind of blocky segmentation to it. If I get in real close with ctrl, alt, middle mouse, we can see that more clearly. It's built out of all straight-line segments. But that is only for the purposes of display in the viewport or for conversion to a polygon object. The spline curve itself is actually mathematically perfect, and it's not made out of straight line segments. We can change the appearance of the curve in the viewport, and that will help us with the aesthetics of our curve just visually. We can also change the segmentation in order to affect a polygon output. If we wanted this to actually be a renderable object rather than a spline curve, it would need to be a polygon object. All this is managed through something called interpolation. Interpolation is the filling in of data in between points, and it applies to curves, it…

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