3-D Visualization

Transparency

Transparency Topics

Making graphics objects semi-transparent is a useful technique in 3-D visualization to make it possible to see an object, while at the same time, see what information the object would obscure if it was completely opaque. You can also use transparency as another dimension for displaying data, much the way color is used in MATLAB.

These sections describe how to use the various transparency properties of objects to enhance certain types of visualizations.

• Making Objects Transparent - provides an overview of the object properties that specify transparency.
• Specifying a Single Transparency Value - describes how to specify a transparency value that applies to all the faces of a graphics object.
• Mapping Data to Transparency - shows how to use transparency as another dimension for visualizing data.
• Selecting an Alphamap - describes characteristics of various alphamaps and illustrates the effects they produce.

Positioning Lights in Data Space

Making Objects Transparent