In article <3A193B04.66305B6B@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>, 
chr### [at] gmxde wrote:

> BTW, you could do a rounded text object with proximity pattern and an
> isosurface (very slow), 

Extremely slow...


> Otherwise i could think of non uniform scaling of the curve depending 
> on it's curvature (i don't really know if that makes sense, just an 
> intuitive idea)

Creating another spline by pushing the control points "inward" might 
work for most cases...which leads to an interesting idea: the ability to 
interpolate between shapes, having the points at one end of the prism be 
different from the points at the other end. Probably extremely difficult 
or impossible with the way things are done now...maybe it would be worth 
it to allow the prism and text shapes to be reduced to triangle meshes. 
This would allow rounding, bevelling, interpolating between splines, and 
even things like extruding along a path. I'm not sure how this would be 
worked into the current syntax...maybe just have the direct-calculation 
method be unavailable when these advanced features are used, or maybe 
add a completely new "extrusion" object.

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Christopher James Huff
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