3.11.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

3.11.2.1 Writing a word with straight lines

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/113403/writing-a-word-with-straight-lines

 
Here is an interesting way to write a word: (it is from a poster for the International Museum Day 2006; I believe it even won an award at an international design competition) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
by Boris Ljubicic. 
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- asked by VividD (71 votes), answered by Anton Antonov (32 votes)

3.11.2.2 Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file

 
I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file.  I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with 
 
ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[\[Theta]], r Sin[\[Theta]],  ...
 

- asked by Matthew Leingang (85 votes), answered by Heike (73 votes)