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The two-thirds rule

The two-thirds rule

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The two-thirds rule

- [Instructor] In this movie we'll talk about the second rule for achieving great effects when drawing bezier curves with the pen tool and that's The Two-Thirds Rule, also known as The Rule of Thirds, or what I call the One-Third Gap Rule for reasons that will become evident. And so let's start things off by considering the perfect curve which is of course, a circle, or more specifically, let's go ahead and zoom in on a quarter circle or arc just so that we're considering a single segment. And so if we were to take a look at the levers and control handles associated with this curve, just rough eyeballing it, you can see that both of the levers consume about one-third of the total length of the segment. Meanwhile, the distance between the handles, the invisible levers as you may recall from the last movie of the previous chapter consumes the remaining third. So, altogether we've got one-third associated with each one of the levers, hence the Rule of Thirds. And while that's beautiful…

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