8.4.4 transparent

Paints markers in a transparent version of their selected colour. The degree of transparency is determined by how many points are plotted on top of each other and by the opaque limit. The opaque limit fixes how many points must be plotted on top of each other to completely obscure the background. This is set to a fixed value, so a transparent level that works well for a crowded region (or low magnification) may not work so well for a sparse region (or when zoomed in).

Usage:

   shadingN=transparent colorN=<rrggbb>|red|blue|... opaqueN=<number>

All the parameters listed here affect only the relevant layer, identified by the suffix N.

Example:

   stilts plot2plane layer1=mark in1=dr5qso.fits
                     x1=psfmag_g-psfmag_r y1=psfmag_u-psfmag_g size1=2
                     shading1=transparent
                     xmin=-0.5 xmax=2.5 ymin=-1 ymax=6

Associated parameters are as follows:

colorN = <rrggbb>|red|blue|...       (Color)

The color of plotted data, given by name or as a hexadecimal RGB value.

The standard plotting colour names are red, blue, green, grey, magenta, cyan, orange, pink, yellow, black, light_grey, white. However, many other common colour names (too many to list here) are also understood. The list currently contains those colour names understood by most web browsers, from AliceBlue to YellowGreen, listed e.g. in the Extended color keywords section of the CSS3 standard.

Alternatively, a six-digit hexadecimal number RRGGBB may be supplied, optionally prefixed by "#" or "0x", giving red, green and blue intensities, e.g. "ff00ff", "#ff00ff" or "0xff00ff" for magenta.

[Default: red]

opaqueN = <number>       (Double)

The opacity of plotted points. The value is the number of points which have to be overplotted before the background is fully obscured.

[Default: 4]