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Revision as of 18:36, 22 July 2011
in order to make "curved shapes", you should hopefully know a bit of geometry.
A circle is (sometimes) considered to be a regular polygon with an infinite number of sides. A regular polygon is a polygon with all sides having the same length and angle.
A quick exercise: think of a regular triangle, then a square, and just add a side to the shape each time. It will start looking more and more like a circle.
This is a dodecagon, a polygon with 12 sides: [1] it looks a lot like a circle.
By using either the Q button or the scroll wheel in Sandbox, we can make octagons.
Watch this Youtube video from Cube 2 to understand: [2]
to make a circle, you can do any of those options, then use copy, paste and rotate to create the circle.
For a more visual explanation, here's my Youtube video showing it: [3]
![[1]](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/eps-gif/Dodecagon_1000.gif){kind=link}