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Ok, thank you for the information.
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> "Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegocio com> wrote:
> > That's very good!!!!!
> >
> > How did you do the clock?
> >
>
> Thanks for your comments ;)
>
> The clock is made of several macros. I will put them on my website when
> finished.
>
> At first I wanted to have the needles of St Dunstan church's clock
properly
> set depending of the time and matching the lighting (which follow this
time
> using the macro sunpos.inc provided with povray).
>
> Then I also made the macro to get the number and graduation at the right
> place, have choice between Arabic or Roman numbers etc.
>
> Currently, the number from (1 to 12) are stored in an array in Roman and
> arabic with the necessary translation shift to get them centerd on the
> middle.
>
> But it is a bit stupid way as I only can use twelves numbers. So I cannot
> use them to put number for tenth of seconds or any other circular
> graduation for something else than hours.
>
> So I am changing it to use the arabic to roman converter of David L.
Kutzler
> (http://objects.povworld.org/binaries/romannumbers.inc)
>
> I found this in the documentation about text justification
>
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>
> 9.1.1.7 How can I find the size of a text object?
> "How can I find the size of a text object / center text / justify text?"
>
> You can use the min_extent() and max_extent() functions (new in POV-Ray
3.5)
> to get the corners of the bounding box of any object. While this is
> sometimes not the actual size of the object, for text objects this should
> be fairly accurate, enough to do alignment of the text object.
>
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>
> the whole set of macros will be havailable on my website when finished
> (http://www.nedap.fr/stdunstan/index.htm). It is a starting web site so,
for
> now i just have here some links and in the technical topics the way i use
> to get a lighting following the time of the day.
>
>
>
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