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Re: Print text files in 3D

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On Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 8:49:59 AM UTC-5, jdh3 wrote:
> This is amazing and works with Helvetica too. I don't understand the program just played with the numbers and got this:
> 
>      0 -.00121  0 .112  2.155 -0.2255  1.105 0.4

Good job! That's that effect I was trying to get.
 
> The "watch file" setting in gv updates the display when using any editor with every "save to file" so I easily experimented with dozens of numbers by trial and error before almost getting lost. Do these numbers correspond to lly llx uly ulx lry lrx ury urx?

Close, each point is x followed by y. The 4 points define the result of 
transforming the unit square at the origin. You can consider them vectors:
zero vector, j vector, i vector, i+j vector. Then it determines the 3D 
perspective that would produce that transformation of the unit square, 
and all the points are mapped through that transformation.

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