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From: Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Shading to transparent using withshademethod
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:53:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160128135308.4d9da069@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A9FC93.1010709@wxs.nl>

On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:33:39 +0100
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> >>> How to make transparent shadings work with the new mechanism?  
> >>
> >>         withtransparency (1,.5)  
> >
> > However, this makes the entire shade transparent. How to shade from
> > one colour to transparent using withtransparency to achieve an
> > effect like in the example below?  
> 
> that isn't how shading works,

…any longer. I just confirmed that it used to work on an older
installation. Just sayin'

> it's a vector from one color to the
> other (same color space eventually) and transparency is a property of
> the whole

That's how the new mechanism works, apparently. But transparency can
AFAIK also be a property of the colour. So transparency is a vector
from one colour to the other, each possibly being partly or entirely
transparent.

But as I don't understand the inner internals, I believe there's a
good reason this has been changed.

Marco
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-28 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-27 21:05 Marco Patzer
2016-01-28  8:43 ` Hans Hagen
2016-01-28 10:45   ` Marco Patzer
2016-01-28 11:33     ` Hans Hagen
2016-01-28 12:53       ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2016-01-28 13:45         ` Hans Hagen
2016-01-28 14:34           ` Marco Patzer
2016-01-28 17:26             ` Hans Hagen
2016-01-28 18:09               ` Marco Patzer
2016-01-28 11:29   ` Hans Hagen
2016-01-28 13:02     ` Marco Patzer
2016-01-28 15:16       ` Hans Hagen

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