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Curve Boolean operations

Curve Boolean operations

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Curve Boolean operations

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- [Instructor] In the last video we finished up one of our major steps in our algorithm of drawing out the spline profile. Those are the little rectangular shapes perpendicular to each of the diagonal corners in our Voronoi diagram. That's going to allow us to go ahead to the next major step. So, zooming out a little bit here in Grasshopper. We can track back to those, kind of, outline algorithm notes that I setup for myself earlier. I can grab this next step. So that is going to be to subtract the spline profiles from the shelf profiles. We're going to take those rectangular profiles coming out of the rectangle three-point component and subtract them from the, kind of, trapezoidal edge shapes that are coming out of the join component. So, there's a great component in Grasshopper that can take care of this for us and that's called the Region Difference. This acts similar to a command that you might be familiar with from Rhino the Curve Boolean command. Basically, it takes one set of…

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