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31 Jul 2024 12:19:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: text on a cylinder  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 3 Nov 2002 23:04:09
Message: <chrishuff-BE233B.22565603112002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3dc568ae$1@news.povray.org>,


> 1. create your cylinder
> 2. create a second cylinder with r=r1+0.0001
> 3. create your text on the right position
> 4. put your text and the cylinder from 2. together
>    with intersection{}

This is actually a very clumsy, limited, and unnecessarily slow way of 
doing it. Just use the object pattern.

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