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Figure 3-81
3. With our text in the foreground layer
and the sphere in the background, acti-
vate Boolean again, but this time
choose
Intersect
. The end result will
create an object that consists of only
the area where the two volumes are
“inside” one another.
The letter faces now catch the light in a
much more interesting way than they did
when they were all flat, even, and ever so
slightly boring. There are exactly
no
non-
planar polygons. (After doing the Boolean,
the points of the back of the logo were
moved forward to a place where they
looked good.)
Save what you've got here. We're going
to do some cool things with it in future
chapters.
Figure 3-82: The finished Boolean operation.
