Re: billboarding 3D axis and tick labels

Hi Tom,

> Is it possible to render axis and tick labels in a 3D visad display so
> that they are always oriented upright and toward the user?  I've dug
> through the source and a method is not obvious to me.  I've done this in
> the past using Java3D constructs, but I don't see how one might do this
> with the abstraction VisAD has placed on the axis scale rendering.

I don't know that what you want violates the abstraction,
but it would certainly take some work to create axis scales
like this.

Note to Kevin and Don: I haven't answered your questions
because I am travelling.

Cheers,
Bill


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