Wireframe mental block

 From:  Michael Gibson
2908.15 In reply to 2908.14 
Hi Burr, well it is hard to say anything for sure without seeing the particular curves...

But Network actually does a process like RebuildCurve internally. However, instead of doing it to a fixed number of points, it continues to add points until the rebuilt curve achieves a maximum distance tolerance away from the original input curves.

So if you smoothed out the curve or made it less wiggly or something by doing a RebuildCurve on it, that could possibly make the difference that you saw.


> Was I correct and does this relate to the different length thing you just pointed out?

Well, rebuilding several curves doesn't necessarily make them the same lengths even if they have the same number of points in them.

Maybe focusing on the length was not the right way to describe it - basically when you do a Network there is a kind of averaging process where the result is a combination of all the input curves in a equal way.

But in the kind of situation that I was showing previously, it is not really good for the input curves to be treated totally equally, it's better in that case for that upright profile curve to kind of have more emphasis placed on it kind of making it more of the primary shaping agent rather than a more equal blending between all the curves.

- Michael