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6:14 PM, Sunday June 18th 2023

Ultimately everything we're doing throughout this course is learning how to navigate spatial problems, and the techniques we use are less about reproducing a particular structure perfectly, and more about how those steps influence the way in which our brains are rewired through the process. This demo is indeed the kind of approach you'll want to use regardless of the variation in the head structure, simply because it helps develop that understanding of spatial reasoning more effectively. This is an approach we've worked up to gradually, so older demos don't reflect it as well as they could - but that's something that will gradually be addressed as we continue overhauling the video/demo content.

In the meantime, this demonstration of the same approach being employed on a particularly irregular rhino head structure shows how it can be applied regardless of significant variations in the structure. It's all about building up structures one new form at a time, and making use of intermediary steps along the way.

12:47 PM, Monday June 19th 2023

Thank you for the information!

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