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✨ Topic: buffer ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the buffer topic page of the GRASS User's Manual 💖 this is literally your group chat for everything buffer-coded — raster buffers, vector buffers, rings, the whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

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🎀 the modules (the main characters)

• r.buffer — makes a raster map that draws buffer zones around cells holding non-NULL category values. no cap, that's the whole thing ✨
• r.buffer.lowmem — same energy, but the low-memory edition: it also creates a raster map showing buffer zones around cells that contain non-NULL category values. your RAM could never 💅
• r.circle — makes a raster map full of concentric rings all centred on one given point. it's giving spiderweb, it's giving target practice 🎯
• v.buffer — this one's for the vector girlies: it creates a buffer around vector features of given type. iconic behavior fr fr 🦋

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🌸 also lowkey important

See also the corresponding keyword buffer for additional references — like, if you want more, that's where the extra lore lives 👑

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🌈 indexes & navigation

• Main index
• Topics index
• Keywords index
• Graphical index
• Full index

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not me making a whole page about buffers and actually slaying it 😭 go forth and buffer responsibly, bestie.

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sign-off time 🎀✨

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