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The Appearance Menu
Appearance | Style
Appearance | MaterialsChoosing "Appearance | Appearance" from the iSight menu opens the Appearance panel.
The Top button bar chooses the appearance mode, with buttons "1 2 3 4 B V". By default, these map to the following appearance attributes:
The Model options menu chooses the way in which the surface color is mapped. If you choose "Gaussian curvature" from the "Appearance | Color" panel, "Ambient and diffuse", for example means that the color by Gaussian curvature is interpreted as ambient and diffuse light. Choosing "none" as a model ignores the color from the "Appearance | Color" panel and uses colors from the "color" tab in this panel instead. Use the two Sides options menus to choose coloring of front faces, back faces, edges and vertices. The two menus represent front and back -- which is which depends on the orientation of the polygons on the surface. Other appearance options:
Appearance | Custom ColorChoosing "Appearance | Color" from the iSight menu opens the Color panel. iSight colors surfaces in a variety of ways, including
Most of the color options allow for modifying the hue, saturation, value and alpha ("H", "S", "V" and "A"). The "scale" widget tunes the way the parameter (e.g. mean curvature) maps to the color scale. In the "Fade" color mode, the surface fades in the interval from "Near" to "Far". For this to work, blending must be enabled ("Appearance | Blend", then choose enable from the "blend" notebook page.) Appearance | Global LightChoosing "Appearance | Lights" from the iSight menu opens the Lights panel, which is used to modify global and local lighting. To modify global lights, choose the "Global" notebook page.
Enable turns on/off all lights (global and local). The HSV widget modifies the brightness and color of the global ambient light. Appearance | LightsTo modify local lights, choose the first "Local" notebook page. Use the 12345678 button bar to choose one of eight lights. Lights can be modified by:
Appearance | BlendChoose "Appearance | Blend" from the iSight menu to open the Blend panel. The most commonly used options are:
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