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plateau tangent

Software; CAD

In animation, a type of tangent that forces animation curves to respect the positions of keyframes so that maximum and minimum values (hills and valleys) do not extend past the keyframes. Plateau ...

platonic solid

Software; CAD

Shapes where all sides are equal, all angles are the same, and all faces are identical. For example, cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and so on.

playblast

Software; CAD

A window lets you preview an animation quickly. The Playblast process takes a screen grab of the view at each frame, and then plays (blasts) the resulting images to a desktop movie player or the ...

In subdivision surface modeling, a view mode that creates a polygonal object that matches the base mesh (level 0) of a subdivision surface. This polygonal object is temporary, and deleted when you ...

polygonal shell

Software; CAD

In modeling, a polygonal object that consists of one or more shells. If there is more than one shell, there are one or more edges which only belong to a single shell (that is, the surfaces are ...

polygonal solid

Software; CAD

In modeling, an object created by faces that form a closed volume. Each edge in a solid is shared by exactly two faces. A solid always has an inside and outside, defined by the direction of the ...