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- From: cmarrin@fred.esd.sgi.com (Chris Marrin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: GL hacks - Rotating text
- Message-ID: <s78h2fo@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 03:28:04 GMT
- References: <BxIqvu.B17@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <BxIqvu.B17@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, "Mark E. Johnson" <maejohns@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
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- > Suppose I wish to draw labeled cubes (similar to wooden blocks
- > with letters on their sides) and have them rotate all over the place.
- >
- > I know how to rotate things around, but am having a hard time
- > with the letters. I could figure out the coordinates of the
- > vertices of these letters and draw them each time - but this
- > leads to ugly results.
- >
- > Has anyone written code to do someting similar, say with the
- > fm calls? Is it as tedious as I think it will be? Any sample
- > code out there?
- >
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