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Creating a cusp point

Creating a cusp point

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Creating a cusp point

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to create the third kind of anchor point associated with Bezier curves, and that's a cusp point. Now, just so you and I understand each other here, a cusp point is an anchor point that produces a corner, whether slight or sharp, between a curving segment and its neighbor. And so, here's an example of a cusp forming a corner between two neighboring curved segments. But cusp points are very flexible. You can make the corners as acute or obtuse as you like. And notice, in contrast with smooth point handles, which are locked into alignment with each other, cusp point handles move altogether independently of one another, and that is what gives us corners between these curves. Now, cusp points come in three varieties. We've got this first guy right here, which is a cusp point between one curved segment followed by another, or you might have a curved segment followed by a straight one. And finally, you can have a straight segment followed by a…

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