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From: leech@cassatt.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: 3D Block letters
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Date: 11 Jan 90 15:54:01 GMT
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In article <37743@apple.Apple.COM> jp@Apple.COM (John Peterson) writes:
>From article <7351@shlump.nac.dec.com>, by ellenberger@tle.decwrl.dec.com:
>> Does anyone out there have a public domain 3-D title generator (ala TITLE from
>> the BYU MOVIE Package) that I could use with one of the public Ray Tracing
>> Packages (MTV or Rayshade)?	I'm in the mood for flying logos and I don't the
>> time to digitize my own font.

    An easy way to generate solid logos is to take a vector font and
turn each stroke into a cylinder with hemispherical endcaps.  I did
this with the Hershey fonts to build the credit sequence for the
Caltech 'trees' demo tape a few years back.
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    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``God is more interested in your future and your relationships
      than you are.'' - Billy Graham