blend_make_simple
List of: Options
Subjects: Blending, Modeler Control
Contents: Blending

Action: Sets whether or not blends are simplified, if possible.

Name String: blend_make_simple

Scheme: boolean #f, #t #t

Test Harness: integer 0, 1 1

C++: logical FALSE, TRUE TRUE

Description: If on, this option causes blending (both standard and advanced) to create the simplest blend possible that gives the same shape as the blend requested. If the option is off, no blends are simplified.


Note Applications are strongly discouraged from changing this option.


If the option is on, three blend types can be changed, one in standard blending and two in advanced blending.


Standard Blending


- If the requested blend is a standard two-ends blend (the only variable radius standard blend), then, if the two end values are equal, a standard constant-radius blend is created.


Advanced Blending


- If the requested blend has a round cross section and is a face-face blend and the radius is constant, a standard constant-radius blend is created.

- If the requested blend has a round cross section and is a face-face blend and the radius is two-ends, a standard two-ends blend is created.

Example: ; blend_make_simple

; Turn off blend simplification

(option:set "blend_make_simple" #f)

;; #t
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