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)

Thanks in advance for your help.

David from Sheffield (England)

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> 
> 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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If, however, the object doesn't have to look "outlined" in reflections, you
may just go with the slope-pattern of the official POV-Ray.

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