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.

-tgq

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