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11 Aug 2024 03:29:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to engrave text on a ring  
From: David Heys
Date: 13 Sep 1999 17:07:01
Message: <37DD6249.7EC46392@hotmail.com>
Fabien Mosen wrote:

> Gitay Kryger wrote:
>
> > 1. How do I engrave text on the side of e.g. a torus object?
>
>  If you don't need very deep-loking engraving, you might consider
> using a bump-map mapped onto the torus, is faster and easier.

You could also try using individual heightfields for each letter and
differencing each letter from the torus. You could then control the
softness of the letter edges by playing with anti-alias and blur functions
when creating the heightfield images.

David


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