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Extend polygonal objects

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Extend polygonal objects

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- [Instructor] Now in addition to the basic poly primitives that we can find here, under polygon primitives, we also have a number of other ones that we can use. So let's go ahead into polygon primitives. So I'm going to go ahead and left click and tear-off this menu. Now below all of these basic shapes, we have some more complex shapes that can also be used as the basis of a model. So for example, we have what's called the Platonic solid. And if we take a look at the options for this, we can actually change it to all sorts of different types of Platonic solids. So if I wanted a dodecahedron, or an octahedron, I can select that and create it and now I've got that object. And if I hop over to the Attribute Editor, go into polyPlatonic, you can see I can change it to all sorts of other different types of objects. So I can turn up or down the subdivisions, change the radius, make it bigger, or smaller, and so on. Now, in…

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