I'm not sure what the advantage is over 'centered bounding boxes' (to be
perfectly honest I've never heard of using such a technique to do this).

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//Mahalis
camera{location<0,0.25,-2> look_at 0.5*y} #declare T=texture{pigment{crackle
scale 0.5 rotate 90 turbulence 0.75 color_map{[0 rgb 1][0.05 rgb 1][0.1
rgb<1,0.25,1>][0.25 rgbf 1][1 rgbf 1]}} finish{ambient 1}} #declare
c=difference{torus{0.5,0.1 rotate -90*x}box{<0.7,0,0.2>,<-0.7,-0.7,-0.2>}}
merge{object{c translate<0.5,0.5,0>} object{c translate<-0.5,0.5,0>}
cylinder{<1,0.5,0>,<1,0,0>,0.1} cylinder{<-1,0.5,0>,<-1,0,0>,0.1}
cylinder{0.5*y,0,0.1} texture{T}}
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> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:52:03 -0500, "Mahalis" <don### [at] fakeycom>
wrote:
> > I recently made a macro to do almost-perfctly-centered text. Anyone
> > interested?
>
> I'm interested. What is wrong with centered around bounding box? Or is it
the
> same? Could you provide some image to show atventage of your
> "almost-perfctly-center" ?
>
> ABX
> --
> #declare _=function(a,b,x){((a^2)+(b^2))^.5-x}#default {pigment{color rgb
1}}
> union{plane{y,-3}plane{-x,-3}finish{reflection 1 ambient 0}}isosurface{
//ABX
>
function{_(x-2,y,1)|_((x+y)*.7,z,.1)|_((x+y+2)*.7,z,.1)|_(x/2+y*.8+1.5,z,.1)
}
> contained_by{box{<0,-3,-.1>,<3,0,.1>}}translate z*15finish{ambient
1}}//POV35

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