Transparency

Transparency and Opacity are frequently confused. Both are modifiers applied via various means to polygonal objects within a virtual environment. Transparency is the measurement of how transparent an object is, from 0% which is fully solid, to 100% which is completely transparent.

Opacity is the measurement of how opaque an object is, from 100%, fully solid to 0%, which is invisible.

Both modifiers are required because an object which is 0% opaque is completely invisible, yet an object which is simply 100% transparent, allows the user to see through it but retains its three dimensional outline in the environment.

Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.

3D Texture Alpha Blending Alpha Channels Alpha Compositing Alpha Mapped Texture

Alpha Mapping Alpha Translucency Alpha Transparency Caustic Shading Caustics

Opacity Optical Tomography Raycast World Raycasting Transparency

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Optical Tracking of Zebrafish Neural Impulses
Zebrafish are handy little critters, as far as neuroscience goes. These tiny, mostly transparent little fish have brains that whilst greatly simplified, have a structure remarkably similar in basic form, to our own. Add in that aforementioned near-transparency, and it becomes possible under the correct lighting conditions, to literally see right into their brains, to the point where you can practically watch as a thought takes place.

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