Except that only works when the distance field accurately represents Euclidian distance, which it certainly won't the minute you apply any sort of non-trivial distortion.
Re:Curated Code CAD (2020)
by zimpenfish on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:45AM
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Do you have examples?
Yeah, I think that's a consequence of how they're constructing the objects. But things like signed distance fields make that easier* because it'd just be "expand the SDF by 3mm" - https://github.com/fogleman/sdf has `shell` for this.
* if you can wrap your head around the math/geometry, I guess