On 25/10/2017 09:29, Ive wrote:
> Am 10/21/2017 um 3:51 schrieb Bald Eagle:
>> Mostly because they didn't have a picture to go with the Wikipedia 
>> article...
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_of_constant_width
>>
>>
>> So here it is folks, the eighth-order polynomial defined by:
>>
>> (x^2+y^2)^4 - 45(x^2+y^2)^3 - 41283(x^2+y^2)^2 + 7950960(x^2+y^2) +
>> 16(x^2-3y^2)^3 + 48(x^2+y^2)(x^2-3y^2)^2 + (x^2-3y^2)x[16(x^2+y^2)^2 -
>> 5544(x^2+y^2)+266382] - 720^3
>>
>>
>> [also see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.06733.pdf pg. 21]
>>
> 
> Please do not use this 3d-look text (that even throws shadows) with this 
> image. Besides that it IMHO does not look good it is more importantly 
> very hard to read.

Oh! I liked it.

> And personally - e.g. on a wiki-page - I hate text information where 
> copy and paste doesn't work ;)
> 

In that case you might like capture2text. It is a utility that takes a 
screenshot of part of your screen then OCR's it and puts the text in the 
clipboard. I've been using it for a couple of years.
Although it doesn't work too well with Bald Eagle's 3D text.
It can also use Google Translate.

http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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