On 4/6/2011 1:16 PM, Trevor G Quayle wrote:
> Stephen<mcavoys_at@aoldotcom>  wrote:
>> On 06/04/2011 7:40 PM, digitaldad wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> I am looking for help in animating a stream of text around a sphere, example
>>> "News of the World" revolving around a globe. I remember it being done somewhere
>>> but searches of the web have been unsuccessful.
>>>
>>
>> One way to do it would be to put each individual letter in a union
>> centred at the centre of the sphere. Then put all the text unions in
>> another union centred at the centre of the sphere. You would rotate the
>> individual text unions until you got the spacing you want then rotate
>> the final union for your animation.
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>       Stephen
>
> If you want it as printed text, you could use the text object in an object
> pattern, then apply a spherical warp to wrap the sphere.  You would have to play
> with the relative scaling and geometry of the object pattern to get it
> positioned and sized right, but that isn't too difficult of maths.

^This. The object pattern can be used to convert most objects into 
pigments. The resulting pigment will always produce sharp results at any 
resolution, unlike using, say, a bitmap image.

Sam

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