POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Text : Re: Text Server Time
6 Aug 2024 04:22:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Text  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 23 May 2002 10:40:56
Message: <3cecff78$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3cecef1c@news.povray.org...
>   If the text doesn't have to be a 3D object but it suffices to be a pigment
> on the surface of the cylinder, then make an object pattern from the text
> and apply the cylindrical warp to it and then use it as pigment on a cylinder.
>

Not that I understand cylindrical warps (never used 'em), but you might be able
to make it 3d using this technique.

Use two nested cylinders, use the object pattern on the outer one, using a
transparent pigment for the non-object areas. Your letters would then be 3d
IMHO.


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