Benjamin Fennell (Nov 18 2024 at 13:29): Benjamin Fennell (Nov 18 2024 at 13:29):I started to implement the OCR-A font as an exercise with creating sketches. Here is two renderings of OCR-A's numbers:
OCR-Plastic-NUMs.png
OCR-NUMs.png
And finally a screengrab for a more precise view:
screengrab-OCR-A-Nums.png
I will probably finish the entire font set in a week or so.
If you want to peruse the OCR-A specificaion NIST published it on their website: (https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub32-1-1981.pdf)
Benjamin Fennell (Nov 28 2024 at 13:06):It took longer than expected. But I have gotten some letters done.
Here are two BRL-CAD renderings in the OCR-A font:
BRL-CAD2.png
BRL-CAD1.png
Benjamin Fennell (Nov 28 2024 at 15:10):I made a quick animation of it, but for some reason the extrusions were flashing in and out. It still looks kinda cool though:
BRL3.webm
Sean (Jan 13 2025 at 19:00):It would be an interesting extension of the annotation primitive to support making annotations 3D, so you could render text in 3D using some specified font. This also fits in with the idea of having some sort of text or plot primitive.
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