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Leveraging NURBS: NURBS or meshes? Part 2

Leveraging NURBS: NURBS or meshes? Part 2

From the course: Grasshopper: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Leveraging NURBS: NURBS or meshes? Part 2

- [Narrator] I have my exercise file open already. In this video, I want to talk about the differences between meshes and NURBS. In particular, focusing on the advantages meshes provide. Typically, within Rhino, meshes are an import export tool. When we teach geometry out of Rhino for fabrication, let's say we're sending it to a CNC machine or a 3D printer, it always goes out as a mesh, 'cause that's easy for those tools to interpret. Meshes are extremely simple data structures. In addition, when we look at a NURBS object in Rhino, what we're actually seeing is a mesh representation. That's how the display pipeline actually renders the geometry. But there's other advantages to mesh. So, in this script, I have a NURBS sphere, which I'll turn off. And then I have a simple mesh object, which I'm using a subdivision, set of subdivision clusters using Kangaroo, to create a spherical mesh. The reason for these clusters typically if you're doing subdivision, in Grasshopper, you're going to…

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