Text on a sphere

[Bruce Sherwood]

I was asked how to place text on the surface of a sphere, and my reply may be of some general interest.

There is no easy way to place text on a sphere, but here are two approaches:

1) Using other tools, make an image of text and apply it to the sphere as a "texture" (https://www.glowscript.org/docs/VPythonDocs/textures.html).

2) Use the 3D text object to create all the letter you will need and position them on the sphere (https://www.glowscript.org/docs/VPythonDocs/text.html).

If you only need to display some text on pr near the sphere without the text being curving text, you could use a label object (https://www.glowscript.org/docs/VPythonDocs/label.html).

Bruce