Difficult text effect
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- Subject: [mg34147] Difficult text effect
- From: Fran_Klein <fran123 at address.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 05:20:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
With Mathematica, it is pretty straightforward to define planar shapes that live in 3-dimensional space. As far as I know, however, text is not treated like one such shape. For example, if one adds bits of text to a 3-dimensional figure, and then rotates the figure, the bits of text continue to face the viewer. Is there a way to get Mathematica to treat a piece of text as if it where just another plane shape in 3-dimensional space? For example, is there a simple way to take a single letter, say, of a given font, weight, etc., and produce the plane (filled) shape in 3-dimensional space corresponding to a trace of the letter's outline? Thanks! Fran