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flyingcircus3 on Feb 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitu...

hull() is another operation that can make rounded corners. You can think of a rounded cube as the hull of 8 spheres.

https://hackaday.com/2018/02/13/openscad-tieing-it-together-...

londons_explore on Feb 10, 2022 | [–]

And hulls are insanely slow.

ur-whale on Feb 10, 2022 | | [–]

> And hulls are insanely slow.

True, but they are usable for the use case described (create a rounded cube by hull-ing 8 small spheres or 4 small cyclinders).

mrfusion on Feb 10, 2022 | [–]

Does Minkowski also do that?

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