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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2011 - 09:56:06 CST

2011/1/28 Ajasja Ljubetič <ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com>:
> Dear All,
> I'm still having trouble rendering highly transparent (alpha is set to
> 0.02) spheres in Tachyon or pov-ray.
> This is a screen shot, tachyon gives this, pov-ray gives this.
> I'm happy with the screenshot, but I would need a higher resolution for
> printing.

ajasja,

transparency is a situation where raytracing will
give you different results than GLSL due to the
approximations done in OpenGL rendering.

for that kind of visualization you are better off using
a Surf representation for the transparent part and
then use one of the materials with angle dependent
transparency (BlownGlass or GlassBubble). check out:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/-1WEt4u41zSNcZr5nV-cCQ?feat=directlink
as an example.

cheers,
    axel.

> Best regards,
> Ajasja
>
> 2010/12/8 Ajasja Ljubetič <ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com>
>>
>> Dear all,
>> I'm having some trouble rendering a scene with multiple transparent
>> spheres. In VMD the scene is fine, but using Tachyon the transparency is
>> different.
>> Since a picture is worth a thousand words i'm also attaching one:)
>> I also put the trouble.dat online.
>> Best regards,
>> Ajasja Ljubetič,
>> Young researcher,
>> Department of solid state physics,
>> Institute Jožef Štefan,
>> Ljubljana Slovenia
>
> 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.