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Jimmy YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 27	Boolean shape additions (shape merge) Apr 2nd, 2008, 5:17am   Hello, does anybody knows how to do the boolean addition of two arbitrary shapes. By this I mean to merge or add two or more shapes and get a new shape with an outline of the combination of these shapes. Thanks, Jimmy

eskimoblood Senior Member Offline Posts: 341	Re: Boolean shape additions (shape merge) Reply #1 - Apr 2nd, 2008, 9:13am   There is the geomerative library by Ricard Marxer Piñón, which has a union, diff and xor  method for polygons. (http://www.ricardmarxer.com/processing/geomerative/documentation/index.htm)
	Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}

Jimmy YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 27	Re: Boolean shape additions (shape merge) Reply #2 - Apr 3rd, 2008, 6:07am   Thanks a lot Eskimo. This will probably save me a lot of time.   Could you give me a very brief example of how to do this if I have two "vertex" shapes, because Geomerative's website does not have many examples? Is it any different if I also want to apply this for "Bezier Vertex" shapes? Many thanks, Jimmy