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  Re: making object completly transparent but with contour frame on  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 13 Jan 2005 02:31:01
Message: <Xns95DD56A3B66B8jgrimbertmeandmyself@203.29.75.35>


> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I want to make a ellipsoid (but it the same question for any object)
> completly transparent but still having the contour in plain whatever
> colour.
> 
> example, for a box, it would be easy to, instead of ploting a box,
> ploting thin cylinders that would represent the box frame.
> 
> But, what about an ellipsoid ? I make ellipsoid by plotting a sphere
> and scaling it by the command scale<0,0,A> which will scale the object
> in the direction z by A. It's easy to make it more or less transparent
> but I don't know how to keep the frame (if it's possible)

A pattern like AOI (angle of incidence) should provide you with what you 
need. You just need to move to Megapov.



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