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- From: wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu (William Shipley)
- Subject: Re: Renderman (Answer: how to display test)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.131355.11573@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington
- References: <1992Aug20.171232.1600@count0.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:13:55 GMT
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- Charles G. Bennett writes:
- > I thought I was finally getting comfortabe with Renderman, until
- > I decided to display some text. Just how does one get Renderman
- > to produce a letter. The HARD way? Gosh, I hope that I don't have
- > to model every letter... In the book "Renderman Companion" the author
- > really blows buy how text "texture maps" are created. Kinda like the
- > old Math professor's "assuming" that a text map exists, such that....
-
- You do it the hard way. The darn hard way. Luckily, I suspect the modeling
- apps that come out will have this feature built in. Unluckily, I suspect many
- of them will get it wrong by making geometric approximations of PostScript
- letters, rather than true curves.
-
- Apparently an older version of RenderMan supported text, but that is no more.
- I've got some code that translates PostScript fonts into RenderMan true curved
- objects, but I'm not real keen on giving it away when I can sell it. (Sorry.)
-
- -William Shipley
- The Omni Group
-