3d glyphs

[William]

Thank you for posting.

@Alfred

That’s an interesting idea, William, but I can’t help wondering whether a 3D pasta shape (as distinct from an extruded 2D pasta shape) would ever be economically viable in practice.

Thank you.

Actually the shape that I have used in an illustration in a pdf, using an illustration produced by exporting a png from Serif ImpactPlus 5, is a 3d shape that is an extruded 2d shape.

Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady

On Thursday 7 October 2010 the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font was useful in an unusual way in a situation that some readers might find of interest. That day I had the idea that the problem for people who cannot eat gluten-containing food of knowing that food served to them in a hotel, restaurant or café really does have no gluten-containing ingredients could be reduced if there were a special pasta shape such that pasta made in that shape were only ever made with no gluten-containing ingredi…

@Alfred

Gluten-free pasta already costs considerably more than durum wheat pasta, and I strongly suspect that the machinery required for the manufacture of your special shapes would be prohibitively expensive. However, 3D printers are now becoming affordable, so who knows what may happen in the world of food manufacturing?

I worked out that it would need a special bronze die to be used in an ordinary pasta-making machine.

I used Serif ImpactPlus 5 to produce a concept illustration.

Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady

I wanted to try to make an illustration of a bronze die for making pasta pieces in the original shape. This is not an engineering drawing, just an artist illustration of how such a bronze die might appear. A die for industrial production might well be larger with many more holes so that more pasta pieces would be made in parallel. The pdf was produced by using FontCreator 5.6 together with ImpactPlus 5.0 and PagePlus X3. FontCreator 5.6 was used to make a special-purpose font, starting from a…

I have really enjoyed building 3d models in ImpactPlus 5. However, although one can rotate the model in ImpactPlus one cannot export a model that an end user can rotate.

I suppose that I am wanting something like the combination of ImpactPlus, Google Street view, vector graphics, animation sequences at times, end user interaction and then telecommunication of all that using plain text and a colour font.

It seems quite a lot to want but I wonder how far off that would really be if 3d glyph capability is added to OpenType. .

William Overington

20 September 2013