Re: 2D Boolean/Join effect

Simon Lord (simonl@cae.ca)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:28:43 -0400

Let me rewrite this question. Last night at home I looked at SuperCard
and tried to see if I could do what is explained below. It occured to
me that if I could control an auto-trace tool that this would be ideal.
In SuperCard it is not possible to "choose autotrace tool" and "drag
from x to y", yet this is exactly what I need to do. A quick glance at
MetaCard does not seem to offer this feature, has anyone got any ideas?

Cheers,
Simon.

Simon Lord wrote:
>
> I need a very special feature that I desperately hope someone has a
> solution to.
>
> I need to take a bunch of vector objects with 3 points, each laid in a
> triangular fashion (like a mesh), join them and get just the outline.
> What I need to output is a single vector that represents the outline of
> all the original graphics (vectors only). If any of you use Illustrator
> or Freehand then you'll be familiar with how you can join several
> obejcts into 1 and basically have all the intersecting lines within the
> joined object deleted.
>
> Cheers!
> Simon.

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