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Blending shapes

You can blend single shapes, or groups of shapes, so that they appear to be one shape morphing into another. Blending creates intermediate shapes between two or more selected shapes. It is also used to simulate shading on irregular shapes. Blending applies to stroke and fill attributes as well as to the shape size.

You can blend a shape group with another group, but you can’t blend a single shape with a group.

Blending groups with other groups offers interesting effects, especially if the groups are blends themselves.

blending shapes

The small circle is blended with the large circle to create a shading effect.

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Clockwise from the top left picture: Two shapes with no blending; blending with a perspective factor of 1.0; blending with a perspective factor of 4.0; and blending with a perspective factor of 0.1.


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