I have made a macro that makes trip-lets.  It's really simple, and I doubt
anyone would actually use it, but it's my first macro, so I put it up on a web
page.  Check out http://www.mindspring.com/~jacksonmead for the stuff.  The
font needs some work, but I was more interested in the macro part.  I had to
leave a little bit on the edges of the block, otherwise some letter
combinations had letters taking chunks out of each other (the z-axis letter
interfering with the y-axis letter, for example).  I may diddle around with it
some more, or I may move on to more interesting stuff.  I'd love to see any
other attempts at this or improvements on my attempt.

Kevin Jackson-Mead

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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 02:22:19 -0700 ryan constantine
<rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

>i was under the impression that the server had been donated.  maybe not
>huh?  so how many IRTC cdroms are sold?  and what are the operating
>costs it pays for?  i thought all of pov was simply enthusiast
>contribution of time and so forth.

  Hi, Ryan (and everyone else). Please see message "IRTC CDROM's and
supporting this site [14-June-1999]" in the announcement group.

  The POV-Team has decided that sales of the IRTC CD-ROMs is the best
overall solution, as well as the simplest. It provides a nice archive
for those who appreciate the IRTC and POV-Ray, as well as generating
some form of income to help offset the costs of maintaining this server.

  In general, we feel that people are more likely to make a one-time
purchase of these annually-released, low-priced CD-ROMs than to commit
to something long term like becoming a CompuServe member, which would
have supported these operations several years ago. We'd also like to
avoid, for lack of a better term, the 'beg-athon' when we need to
upgrade some hardware on the server machine. Because small contributions
may be mailed from just about anywhere in the world, a fee will likely
have to be paid to a bank to convert to local currency. Way too much
trouble and takes too long when a failing drive needs to be replaced
like *right now*.

  Please order your IRTC CD-ROMs, folks. This how you can help support
this server in the long term. I've purchased all three available IRTC
CD-ROMs <hint, hint>. Thank you for your support :)

http://www.aussie.org/products/

(follow-ups to povray.general, please)

-- 
Alan - ako### [at] povrayorg - a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote in message
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>
> Kevin,
> this is an awesome start! I remember that back then
> when Eric Freeman posted about a million pictures
> exploring this concept, I couldln't for the life of me do
> one of these. I am not sure I can now either. If
> somebody cares to explain, though...
>
> I think you should definitely look for Eric's stuff, I
> remember him doing a few with Gothic-style letters
> (which should be quite hard, right?)

I, too, was inspired by G.E.B.  The problem with making a macro is that not
all 3 letter combinations can be carved out of a block.  I discovered this
while trying to do my wife's initials (CFF).  Any two letters can be done,
though.  The gothic-lettered ones, as I recall (lost the code in a hard
drive crash) were made with a union of two paper-thin text objects, one
rotated.

Eric
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http://www.datasync.com/~ericfree
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"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."
- Erwin Schrodinger talking about Quantum Mechanics.

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"Eric Freeman" <eri### [at] datasynccom> wrote in message
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>
> The gothic-lettered ones, as I recall (lost the code
> in a hard drive crash) were made with a union of
> two paper-thin text objects, one rotated.

I mean 3 paper-thin text objects, two rotated.

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I just found the code for the image (sorry about not putting the file size
in the subject).  I re-did it in MegaPOV.  You'll find it in
.binaries.scene-files.

Eric
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http://www.datasync.com/~ericfree
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"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."
- Erwin Schrodinger talking about Quantum Mechanics.

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(Does anyone besides me read year-old posts?)

It occurs to me that this thing might look even better if it could
somehow be done as blobs with parametric sheets for cores.  (The sphere
has a point for a core, and the cylinder component has a line segment.) 
But I'd want the blob components not to add where the strokes of the `A'
meet.

Yet another idea for a patch that I'll write any century now!


-- 
Anton Sherwood  --  http://www.ogre.nu/ (online again, Nov.19)

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