From: sean cusson <scusson@mac.com>
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Subject: Text spiralling around a 3D column
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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:16:27 -0400
To: After List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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I've been wracking my brain trying to get this to work. I need to create =
a "beam of data" shooting up in to the sky. The trick is that I need the =
text to spiral around the beam as though the beam is made, in part, by =
the text itself which could be up to 100 words. Adding to the =
complexity, I need it to be 3D as I will be compositing it on top of C4D =
renders. I know I can build it directly in C4D but I would love to be =
able to keep it live in AE instead.

I know that I can create a circle and just have the text wrap around the =
path but I don't know how I would create a helix/spiral shape without =
creating the whole thing by hand. These columns are basically shooting =
up in to the sky so the paths themselves would be quite high (and a huge =
pain to try and make by hand).

Has anyone been able to do this in AE?