Apple Corner 1. Approximated Clothoidal Transition

I've had a few comments since posting the MacBook Air M1 video, regarding the 'Apple Corner'. I decided to investigate the clothoid/Euler spiral again and found a post from 2023 on the Rhino forums, with a Grasshopper definition that creates a clothoid transition between a line and an arc. In the past I have given up as I do not have the programming know how to figure this out. Using the Grasshopper definition, I have matched an approximated clothoid transition to the MacBook Air corner, then created ratios from the result, to make it easy to recreate the corner in Solidworks, as well as creating the corner for different target radii. The ratios worked to match geometry to a 2020 iPad Pro, which has a larger corner radius than the M1 Macbook Air.
Thanks to Ivan Gálik and Matej Fitoš for the Grasshopper definition.
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Here's a link to the Apple Corners Part 2 video
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