33.19.19 Display Properties Dialog Box

To modify the color, visibility, and other display properties for individual geometric objects in the graphics display, use the Display Properties dialog box. You can open this dialog box by clicking the Display... push button in the Scene Description dialog box. See Section  29.6.2 for details about the items below.

Controls

Geometry Name   displays the name of the object you selected for modification in the Scene Description dialog box.

Visibility   contains check buttons that control options related to the visibility of the selected object. See Section  29.6.2 for details.

Visible   toggles the visibility of the selected object. If it is turned on, the object will be visible in the display, and if it is turned off, the object will be invisible.

Lighting   turns the effect of lighting for the selected object on or off. You can choose to have lighting affect only certain objects instead of all of them. Note that if Lighting is turned on for an object such as a contour or vector plot, the colors in the plot will not be exactly the same as those in the colormap at the left of the display.

Faces   toggles the filled display of faces for the selected mesh or surface object. Turning Faces on has the same effect as turning on the display of faces in the Mesh Display dialog box.

Outer Faces   toggles the display of outer faces.

Edges   toggles the display of interior and exterior edges of the geometric object.

Perimeter Edges   toggles the display of the outline of the geometric object. (This option has no effect on the display of meshes.)

Feature Edges   toggles the display of feature lines (if any) of the geometric object.

Lines   toggles the display of the lines (if any) in the geometric object.

Nodes   toggles the display of the nodes (if any) in the geometric object.

Colors   contains controls for setting face, edge, line, and node colors, and transparency for faces. See Section  29.6.2 for details.

Color   specifies the face, edge, line, or node color for modification. When you turn on this button, the color scales below will show the current color specification, which you can modify by moving the sliders on the color scales.

Red, Green, Blue   are color scales with which you can specify the RGB components of the face, edge or line color.

Transparency   sets the relative transparency of the selected object. An object with a transparency of 0 is opaque, and an object with a transparency of 100 is transparent.