Surface Area

Measures surface area: the outer surface of a Solid, the flat region of a profile, or the triangles of a mesh. A Solid's surface is measured to Relative error by cubes cut finer where the surface needs it, as Mass Properties measures; refused by name when its budget ends before that error is reached.

Inputs

Input Solid or Profile or Mesh

What to measure: a Solid's surface, the flat region a profile encloses, or a mesh's triangles.

Takes: any block that gives Solid (124 blocks)
Relative error Number

How close the result must be, as a fraction of it (0.01 = 1 %; over a surface, of the integrand's size summed over it). The Solid is measured more finely where its surface needs it until the estimated error is this small, within a budget of 40 million field samples.

Output

Number

Used by: any block that takes Number (95 blocks)

Properties

Values the block gives besides its output. The editor lists them under Properties, and an input can read one by reference.

Ceiling Number

The value rounded up to a whole number.

Floor Number

The value rounded down to a whole number.

Negative Number

The value with its sign flipped.

Round Number

The value rounded to the closest whole number.

ScalarField Number

The value as a field with the same value everywhere.

List List of Number

This value in a Number List of one.

Scalar Number

The number itself (kept for documents that read a whole number as a real one).

Text Text

The number written out as text.

In the demos

What implicit modeling is

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