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Re: 3D Rotating Text

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  • Subject: [mg35855] Re: 3D Rotating Text
  • From: daiyanh at earthlink.net (Daitaro Hagihara)
  • Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:17:36 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <aiatfi$5bv$1@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In article <aiatfi$5bv$1 at smc.vnet.net>, "ng" 
<georgakopoulos at mindspring.com> wrote:

>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?

Use hershey fonts package from mathsource.  The accompanying example
illustrates text rotation and projection onto 3d planes.  The use
of hershey fonts is the only way to get rotated text effect on Mac
frontends, for those in needs of such feature.

DH


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