Translations:Rocket Transition/19/en

Shapes such as an ogive or a parabola can be applied in one of two ways. The standard, non-clipped, treats the axis parallel to the central axis offset by the smaller of the fore and aft radius as the axis for drawing the shape. The clipped method applies a larger version of the curve centered around the transition axis, and clips the portion forward of the smaller radius. In this example, the non-clipped curve is drawn from x=0 to x=60 around the y=10 axis. The clipped version extends the shape along the x axis until y=0 and takes only the portion from x=0 to x=60.