POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Trip-let (8k) : Re: Trip-let (8k) Server Time
1 Oct 2024 20:21:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trip-let (8k)  
From: Kevin Jackson-Mead
Date: 15 Aug 2000 07:30:28
Message: <39992974.99E4A2E7@mindspring.com>
Mike Williams wrote:

> <snip my stuff>
>
> Do you mean to do something like
>
> intersection {
>   text { ttf "faktos.ttf", "G", 2, 0 translate <-0.25,-0.36,-1>
>          scale <4,2.4,1>}
>   text { ttf "faktos.ttf", "E", 2, 0 translate <-0.25,-0.36,-1>
>          scale <4,2.4,1> rotate y*90}
>   text { ttf "faktos.ttf", "B", 2, 0 translate <-0.25,-0.36,-1>
>          scale <4,2.4,1> rotate x*90}
>   pigment {rgb 1}
> }
>
> (where the translations and scales would be adjusted for the particular
> font, so that the letters just about fit within box {-1,1}), or are you
> building the thing from CSG?
>

I didn't even think of using text objects for it.  That's kind of neat.
However, I did it basically how Hofstadter did it, starting with a cube and
removing bits from it.

Kevin Jackson-Mead

>
> --
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure


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