cture, Rhino treats them as a single flat list. For example a surface can have 10 rows and 6 columns of control-points, resulting in a list of 60 points.
But 10 times 6 isn't the only way to get to 60. If you want to make a surface out of a list of 60 points, you'll also have to tell Rhino how those 60 points should be interpreted in terms of a grid. It could be 2*30, 3*20, 4*15, 5*12, 6*10, and all of the aforementioned products the other way around.
Sometimes there's only one way for a number of points to fit into a rectangular grid. For example if you provide 49 points, then 7*7 is the only way to make it work, but these cases are rare so we always demand you give us all the information required to actually make a rectangular grid of control-points from a linear collection.
As for "Why is it, sometimes we need to attach additional value into it?", this is usually because when you divide a domain or a curve into N segments, you end up with N+1 points. For example take the domain {0 to 5}, and divide it into 5 equal subdomains. You end up with {0 to 1}, {1 to 2}, {2 to 3}, {3 to 4} and {4 to 5}. However there are six numbers that mark the transitions between these domains 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. This is why you often have to add 1 to the UCount, because the number that controls the UCount often results in N+1 actual points.…
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and change the 12 for 32 for example. Note # replace < for display purposes
Make sure Rhino and Grasshopper aren't open when you make the change otherwise you won't see the desired results.
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Added by Danny Boyes at 8:40am on February 21, 2012
segments (ie. polylines)
2 = conic section (ie. arcs, circles, ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas)
3 = standard freeform curve
5 = smoother freeform curve
The higher the degree, the less effect a single control-point has on the curve, but the further that weak effect reaches. Degree=5 curves are smoother, but it's also harder to add local details to it without adding a lot of control points. Rhino supports curves up to degree=11, but you almost never need more than 5.…
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can gain that much. If you used nested "if else" statements or "andalso" statements in the previous version most of the iterations should stop after the first distance comparison.…
Added by Vicente Soler at 2:36pm on December 1, 2012