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Article #3278Re: characters in perspective
From: Larry Spence
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 23:34
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 23:34
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In article <1990Oct5.155219.442@morrow.stanford.edu> craig@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Craig Jarchow) writes:
>A rotated, 3-dimensional plot shown in perspective requires characters with
>bounding boxes that are trapezoids. Anybody have a PostScript routine that
>will map a character into a trapezoidal bounding box?
Note that mapping a character from a rectangular to a trapezoidal bounding
box will not necessarily give you true perspective, although you may be able
to approximate it.
--
Larry Spence
larry@csccat.cs.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!csccat!larry From: larry@csccat.cs.com (Larry Spence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: characters in perspective Message-ID: <3943@csccat.cs.com> Date: 5 Oct 90 23:34:52 GMT References: <1990Oct5.155219.442@morrow.stanford.edu> Reply-To: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas Lines: 13