<div dir="ltr">The example you mention is the right approach for what you are looking for.<div><br></div><div>The reason why you don't need <span style="font-size:12.8px">vtkFollowers+</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">vtkTextActors</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">, is that we have a 2D layer on top of the 3D for which it is trivial to render text that is always facing the camera. ;-)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">And we have a mechanism that can convert a set of location in the 3D world into the screen space so those label could be printed. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Let us know if you the example is not enough to get you started.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Seb</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Cristina Oyarzun via vtkusers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org" target="_blank">vtkusers@vtk.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>I would like to visualize some numbers next to my actors. I saw an example (Spheres and Labels) where a canvas is created for this purpose. I remember doing this using vtkFollowers in the past. Is there currently some easy way to do this with vtk-js? I mean something similar to vtkFollowers or vtkTextActors?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Cristina<br></div><br></font></span></div>
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