Absolute vs. relative rounding

- In this movie, I'll show you the difference…between absolute and relative rounding.…So, for starters here, I'll go ahead and click…inside this star in order to select it…with my white arrow tool.…And then, I'll double click on any one of these…round corner widgets to bring up…the Corners dialog box.…And notice, in addition to these various corner options,…including round and inverted round, and chamfer,…we also have these two rounding icons down here.…Now they're not going to produce any effect with chamfer,…so I'll go ahead and switch back to inverted round,…which I had applied before,…and now notice by default, rounding is now set to absolute.…

Meaning that we're getting the same degree of rounding…on each and every one of these bumps.…And essentially what Illustrator is doing…is drawing a perfect quarter circle…at every one of these locations.…But, if I switch over to relative,…then in the case of this star,…I'm going to make some of these corners…sharper as we're seeing here.…So the corners down at the bottom,…