I want to make a ribbon that looks like stairs.
So if I have a path that looks like this:
How do I make that a ribbon that looks like stairs?
Thanks!
Uh … stairs, not stars. 
So, I am not trying to make stairs. I am trying to understand the basic, most fundamental ribbon. I guess the simplest ribbon is a rectangle.
The idea is a have the points of a stair step line. How do I extrude that making it stairs.
The documentation starts with a complex shape that doesn’t look like a ribbon at all.
The documentation says you have to send it an array of arrays.
The parameters are not self evident: what is a closeArray? what is a closePath? What is a pathArray?
The next page looks promising:
It talks about an A path and a B path. Perfect. But there is no example of it using an A path and a B path. It jumps into a helix.
I am not sure if this is right or not:
So, I guess this is the solution:
Now I don’t understand the way the light plays off it. It looks curved, but it is not. Strange.
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