Title :
Arbitrary precise orientation specification for layout of text
Author :
Surazhsky, Tatiana ; Elber, Gershon
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Math., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
A novel method for the layout of text strings over some given free-form parametric base curves is considered. Each letter of the string is represented by a collection of cubic and linear Bezier curves. The layout of the string over the free-form parametric curve is derived as a symbolic composition of the string geometry (i.e. a sequence of Bezier curves) and a free-form parametric surface S(u, v) with the parameters u, v between zero and one, and S(u, 0) given by the base curve. This method has proven to provide great flexibility and give high quality results in layout of text
Keywords :
character sets; computational geometry; text analysis; arbitrary precise orientation specification; base curve; free-form parametric base curves; free-form parametric curve; free-form parametric surface; linear Bezier curves; string geometry; symbolic composition; text layout; text strings; Animation; Application software; Design automation; Humans; Packaging; Parametric statistics; Printing; Shape; Spline; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Graphics and Applications, 2000. Proceedings. The Eighth Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0868-5
DOI :
10.1109/PCCGA.2000.883886