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Twirl Your Name

Drag a slider to rotate your name.

Run the code to write your name in large text. Try other sizes:

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You can “run” any code, including strings. The output doesn’t have quotes, but it’s a string too:

"sophia"

Make 30-point text (a “point” is a printer’s measure equal to 1/72 inch):

Style["sophia", 30]

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Style["sophia", 30]

Rotate it by 50 degrees. Try other angles:

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Rotate a text (type the degree symbol as deg):

Rotate["xxxx", 50 \[Degree]]

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Rotate[Style["sophia", 30], 50 \[Degree]]

Make it interactive. Drag the slider to rotate the text:

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It’s easy to make anything interactive in the Wolfram Language.

Here’s the expression to rotate “sophia”:

Rotate[Style["sophia", 30], 50 \[Degree]]

To make it interactive, wrap the expression with Manipulate, replace the fixed angle 50 with the variable angle, and specify that angle can vary from 0 to 360 (make sure there’s a space between angle and °):

Manipulate[ Rotate[Style["sophia", 30], angle \[Degree]], {angle, 0, 360}]

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Manipulate[ Rotate[Style["sophia", 30], angle \[Degree]], {angle, 0, 360}]
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