is there a node or a contribution that lets me do a single line font with a laser?
the typo spread node is for outlines but is there a node to get the center line of a font or something like that?
this is what i mean:
What about drawing A to Z in vectors and animating them?
i’m not a ware of such a node, but you should be able to find plenty of such paths in the internet. there are many ways to import such paths, e.g. SVG, CSV, 3d model or just as a raw spread of positions. then feed the paths to the laser.
@schlonzo im not trying to reinvent the wheel.
@tonfilm thats what i thought, but couldn’t find anything.
also for those paths to work properly they have to have evenly spaced points…
for that use the PathLength node. its a bit expensive, but you cache the generated output data to avoid doing it every frame.
also this came up from a quick google search: Single-line fonts
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that blog is nice. it took me a while to find something other than single line ttfs
this seems promising:
https://trmm.net/Asteroids_font
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/osresearch/vst/master/teensyv/asteroids_font.c
asteroid_single_line_font_laser (3).zip (4.1 KB)
i spent way too much time on this… hope this helps someone in the future
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This is awesome! Was definitely lacking in the vvvv world, maybe post it in contribs as well now?
I think it may have uses even outside of laser displays, the asteroid font has a very iconic look and it’s easy to apply extra effects to a point based font like this:
Will defo try out once I get my laser hardware back.
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@domj very cool. you are right!, i haven’t thought about this.
…will arrange the nodes a bit nicer and post as contrib.
i had the same pproblem some time ago, and i used one of these single-line fonts with typospread:
http://www.imajeenyus.com/computer/20150110_single_line_fonts/index.shtml#cambam
maybe this helps someone…
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