POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Curved text : Re: Curved text Server Time
5 Sep 2024 06:20:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Curved text  
From: Paul Mitchell
Date: 18 Sep 2001 12:49:20
Message: <3BA77C16.1010506@ntlworld.com>
Thanks Mike,

I've got the beta and it look like it does exactly what I want.

Mike Williams wrote:

> Wasn't it Paul Mitchell who wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I want to arrange some text on (part of) a circle, and the only way I 
>>can see to do it is to rotate the coordiantes slightly after each 
>>letter. Obviously the exact amount of rotation required will depend on 
>>the letter.
>>
>>Now I could do this by trial and error, but before I emabark on a whole 
>>load of fiddling, is there a better way that I just haven't spotted?
>>
> 
> The POV 3.5 betas come with a built-in "CircleText()" macro and an
> example file called "circletext.pov" that does this.
> 
>


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