RE: 3D Rotating Text
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg35816] RE: [mg35803] 3D Rotating Text
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 02:41:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Nicholas, At present this is a deficiency in Mathematica 3D graphics. You can write a Text statement and attach it to a 3D point. If you rotate the graphics, say with SpinShow, the text does rotate with the object. But Mathematica always renders it, so the text still shows even when the point it is attached to is hidden behind a surface. It would be nice if Mathematica turned the text rendering on and off according as to whether the point it was attached to was hidden or not. One solution might be to use colored points to mark features and then identify them by text outside the rotating plot. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: ng [mailto:georgakopoulos at mindspring.com] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Is there a way to produce text that rotates with a graphic in Mathematica? I can only imagine of producing a 2-D text graphic, then displaying it in a rectangle in 3D, and rotating the result. This works only as long as you stay in "front of" (on the picture side) of the rectangle. Any ideas? Thanks, Nicholas