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6:42 PM, Tuesday September 14th 2021

I can't actually find where I said that, but I suppose explaining the diagonal boxes issue once more will clarify it. On the exercise, we mention how paying attention to how neighboring edges of a line behave is important, since that'll ultimately give us some hints as to how our current lines should behave. This part. It's important, to be able to do this, that our edges are close to each other. You'll see in this example that not all of them are - the red one, in particular, is way off. I hope this makes sense.

6:35 PM, Thursday September 16th 2021

Okay, gotcha I have a better grip on it now thanks!

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