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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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Bézier curve fundamentals3m 38s
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Working with Bézier curves3m 15s
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Dragging an unconstrained path4m 26s
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Dragging a constrained path2m 56s
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Creating a smooth point2m 49s
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Drawing a curved segment3m 4s
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Adding segments to a Bézier curve3m 20s
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Closing a path with a curved segment4m 2s
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Extending and connecting curves7m 3s
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Creating a cusp point3m 56s
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Alternate ways to create cusp points5m 46s
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Hidden Pen tool tricks6m 30s
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How Bézier curves really, truly work5m 1s
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