On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:20:23 -0400, "TinCanMan"
<Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:


>I suggest reducing the extrusion depth to a readable level.

You could also try making the sides of the extrusions a different
color than the faces. That would make it much easier to read the face
of the type, without sacrificing the 3-D look.



Later,
Glen

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Harold Baize wrote:

> Yeah, it is not finished, just experimenting. The 3D titles and
> legends work better when viewed stereoscopically. Of course
> none of that contributes to clarity of communicating data.
> It is just for fun. 

That's good to hear. It sounded like you wanted to include it in
your next paper or presentation.

> Sometimes I wish the data that I work
> with could benefit from a three dimensional representation.

Unfortunately, a feature-rich image is much harder to grasp,
but makes much more fun to create...

Thomas

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"Harold Baize" <bai### [at] itsaucsfedu> wrote in message
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> Yeah, now i recognize that I just expected it to
> behave differently. Expected a smoother transition.
>
> HB

You could use blobs to make a smoother transition.

Corey

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blob{threshold#macro _(s,i,g)#if(s)sphere{20*(i-<5,1,-10>)16,1pigment
{rgb 9}}_(s-1i+g,g)#end#end.7_(4x,x)_(2,0y)_(5y*2x)_(5x*6x)_(3<6,
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