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RE: 3D Rotating Text

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  • 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





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