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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!utcsri!skule.ecf!xiaoy
- From: xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO Yan)
- Subject: Advice sought on displaying character strings.
- Message-ID: <Bs1xGM.AB@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Keywords: font(), cmov(), and charstr()
- Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:26:45 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- Advice sought for
- Attaching character string labels to networks in GL.
-
- Right now we are using the triad:
- font()
- cmov()
- charstr()
- which has the advantage of maintaining good viewing angle and size
- during translation and rotation, but has these problem:
- 1). zbuffering does NOT work so front labels may be occluded by
- back labels.
- 2). sizes are constant.
- 3). lables always orient left-right horizontally.
-
- We have not tried the so-called stroke fonts by actually drawing polygons,
- and it is assumed the maintaining good viewing angle will be very hard.
-
- Anyone has a better solution, or knows good packages around?
-
- Xiao
- <xiao@virtual.rose.utoronto.ca>
-