Re: Spec-Text-3dAnn

Eric T. Antelman ([email protected])
Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:21:26 -0400


> It really is important if the 3D text is going to be usable for
> scientific visualization. How about adding a annotation node of type SfBool.

I absolutely agree with this need. In generall it is possible to want
other graphics to be screen based (Cursors or Symbol
Graphics). Perhaps one could think of annotation text as a 3-D point
connected to a screen space text object. (This way font sizes can also
be specified in screen space, maybe as a function of scale like a LOD
node.)

Currently we are implimenting this functionality with callbacks in
Inventor. Something obviously not transportable to VRML.

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