File Exchange Pick of the Week

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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