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November 21st, 2007

Practical example: Setting transparency on a patch

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Here is a three and a half minute video that shows how to set transparency based on data values. I tagged this as a practical example because it was a case that
came into Technical Support here at The MathWorks and I was called in to help, but I also think it is an advanced technique.

This technique can be useful if you want to chop off the data that is in a certain range to make other data easier to see. Do you have other uses for this too?

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By Doug Hull

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2 Responses to “Practical example: Setting transparency on a patch”

  1. Chris replied on January 11th, 2010 at 17:59 UTC :

    Do you know how to implement scaled alpha values for all points/values in a 3D plot? Say W=f(x,y,z), and we want to plot a 3D figure for coordinates (x,y,z), making each point transparent according to its f(x,y,z) magnitude?

  2. Doug replied on January 11th, 2010 at 18:09 UTC :

    Why not just make alpha a matrix the size of the data instead of a scalar? Is this what you mean?

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